Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution

Further Reading

Articles

• Finkelman, Paul. “Regulating the African Slave Trade.” Civil War History 54, no. 4 (2008): 379–405.

Books

• Beeman, Richard. Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. New York: Random House, 2009.
• Elliot, Jonathan. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. 5 vols. 1888. Reprint. New York: Burt Franklin, 1987.
• Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. 4 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966.
• Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
• Jensen, Merrill, et al., eds. Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1976–.
• Stewart, David O. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.
• Storing, Herbert J., ed., The Complete Anti-Federalist. 7 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
• Waldstreicher, David. Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.

Web Sites

• Elliot, Jonathan, comp. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. Library of Congress “American Memory: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention” Web site. memory.loc.gov/ammem/lwed.html.
• Madison, James. The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. Constitution Society Web site. www.constitution.org/dfc_0000.htm.
• “Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention.” Yale Law School’s “Avalon Project” Web site. avalon.law.yale.edu/debcont.asp.