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'A glorious liberty document': Frederick Douglass' case for an anti-slavery Constitution.(Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July)(Book review)

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From: Reason
Date: 20061001
Author:Root, Damon W.

Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July, by James A. Colaiaco, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pages, $24.95

ON JANUARY 27, 1843, in a resolution adopted by the American Anti-Slavery Society, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously denounced the U.S. Constitution for sanctioning the crime of slavery. "The compact which exists between the North and the South" Garrison wrote, "is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

Was he right? Did the Constitution protect the right to own human property? Frederick Douglass, the escaped former slave, self-taught ...

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