Fixing the Framers' Failure
The 13th, 14th, 15th Amendment and America's New Birth of Freedom
By Robert James McWhirter
Fixing the Framers' Failure by Robert James McWhirter details how the U.S. Constitution originally embedded protections for slavery and how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments attempted to undo that foundation. McWhirter shows how Lincoln redefined the Constitution’s meaning during the Civil War to align...