Acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz reconsiders the Founders’ debates over slavery and the Constitution as described in his new book, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books on American history and politics, including The Rise of American Democracy, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a contributing editor to The New Republic, a member of the editorial boards of Dissent and Democracy, and has written some 300 articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces for a number of publications.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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