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Sean Wilentz on "Anglo-American Origins of Atlantic Anti-Slavery.” Sean Wilentz is the Davis Professor of History at Princeton. He received his PhD from Yale and his BA from Columbia. Among his books are Chants Democratic, which won several national prizes; The Kingdom of Matthias; The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (awarded the Bancroft Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.) His most recent study, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard, was the recipient of the annual Thomas A. Cooley Book Prize for the best book on the Constitution. He has written some 400 articles and is currently at work on The Triumph of American Antislavery, a companion volume to The Rise of American Democracy, which will offer a comprehensive political history of the antislavery movement from its seventeenth-century origins to the eradication of slavery in 1865.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on February 26, 2021.
Sean Wilentz on "Anglo-American Origins of Atlantic Anti-Slavery.” Sean Wilentz is the Davis Professor of History at Princeton. He received his PhD from Yale and his BA from Columbia. Among his books are Chants Democratic, which won several national prizes; The Kingdom of Matthias; The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (awarded the Bancroft Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.) His most recent study, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard, was the recipient of the annual Thomas A. Cooley Book Prize for the best book on the Constitution. He has written some 400 articles and is currently at work on The Triumph of American Antislavery, a companion volume to The Rise of American Democracy, which will offer a comprehensive political history of the antislavery movement from its seventeenth-century origins to the eradication of slavery in 1865.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on February 26, 2021.
