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Inventing Equality: Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War Audiobook, by Michael Bellesiles Play Audiobook Sample

Inventing Equality: Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War Audiobook

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Read By: Joe Barrett Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705246924

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

15

Longest Chapter Length:

58:44 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

12:53 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

39:50 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in Rochester, New York, and asked, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" The audience had invited him to speak on the day celebrating freedom, and had expected him to offer a hopeful message about America; instead, he'd offered back to them their own hypocrisy. How could the Constitution defend both freedom and slavery? How could it celebrate liberty with one hand while withdrawing it with another? Theirs was a country which promoted and even celebrated inequality.

From the very beginning, American history can be seen as a battle to reconcile the large gap between America's stated ideals and the reality of its republic. Its struggle is not one of steady progress toward greater freedom and equality, but rather for every step forward there is a step taken in a different direction. In Inventing Equality, Michael Bellesiles traces the evolution of the battle for true equality—the stories of those fighting forward, to expand the working definition of what it means to be an American citizen—from the Revolution through the late nineteenth century. He identifies the systemic flaws in the Constitution, and explores through the role of the Supreme Court and three Constitutional amendments—the 13th, 14th, and 15th—the ways in which equality and inequality waxed and waned over the decades.

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About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.