A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution by Damon Root
By Timothy Sandefur
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2020
186 pp., $26.95 (hardcover)
Nothing in history has so bitterly divided Americans as the practice of slavery. Even today, a century and a half after the “peculiar institution” was abolished, debates continue over whether the authors of the Constitution intended to grant it permanent legal protection or place it—in the phras…
