Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 Picture in June 1864

in June 1864

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For three years

Grant had long set his eyes on capturing Mobile

changing relations between slave owners and enslaved people

Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 Picture in June 1864by Akhil Reed Amar From one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal,