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(0)James Madison
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The writings collected here reflect the Madison who emerges from the best scholarship of the last thirty years - scholarship to which Ralph Ketcham, as Editor of "The Papers of James Madison" and in many other ways, has made stunning contributions. Ketcham's Introduction, a brief chronology, the texts of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and an index further distinguish this collection. -- From publisher's description.
11) Early American views on Negro slavery: from the letters and papers of the founders of the Republic
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Introduction: Mr. Mellon's illuminating presentation of the views of some of the founding fathers on slavery and the Negro exposes the raw nerve of American democratic society. If the central theme of the American Revolution was freedom and equality, the impact of that epochal struggle upon the black man was at best peripheral. The Declaration of Independence had dedicated the Revolution to the proposition that "all men are created equal." There were...