Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

Paul Finkelman (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Ariel F. Sallows Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law. His many books include Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson: Millard Fillmore: A Biography; and A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United show more States, which he co-authored. He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present; The Encyclopedia of the New American Nation; and The Encyclopedia of World Slavery. For the Bedford Series in History and Culture he edited A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, with Related Documents and Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South, A Brief History with Documents. Finkelman has also published numerous scholarly articles on slavery, American legal history, civil rights, civil liberties, and baseball and the law. show less