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7618489Born Equalhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/born-equal-9781541605206/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7243689/image.jpg?v=638871313273970000365445MXNBasic BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>From "one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars" (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage</strong></p><p>In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote.</p><p>In <em>Born Equal</em>, the prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional debates that unfolded across these eight decades, when four glorious amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender. At the heart of this era was the epic and ever-evolving idea that all Americans are created equal. The promise of birth equality sat at the base of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. But in the nineteenth century, remarkable American women and menespecially Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincolnelaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out from Seneca Falls to the halls of Congress, from Bleeding Kansas to Gettysburg, from Fords Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world.</p><p>An ambitious narrative history and a penetrating work of legal and political analysis, <em>Born Equal</em> is a vital new portrait of Americas winding road toward equality.</p>...7228419Born Equal365445https://www.gandhi.com.mx/born-equal-9781541605206/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7243689/image.jpg?v=638871313273970000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook20259781541605206_W3siaWQiOiJjNjVjNmUzMy02MjkzLTRiYzMtOGViZi0yOGNlZWI5YzhlMTgiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ0NSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjgwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjM2NSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjp0cnVlfV0=9781541605206_<p><strong>From "one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars" (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage</strong></p><p>In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote.</p><p>In <em>Born Equal</em>, the prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional debates that unfolded across these eight decades, when four glorious amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender. At the heart of this era was the epic and ever-evolving idea that all Americans are created equal. The promise of birth equality sat at the base of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. But in the nineteenth century, remarkable American women and menespecially Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincolnelaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out from Seneca Falls to the halls of Congress, from Bloody Kansas to Gettysburg, from Fords Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world.</p><p>An ambitious narrative history and a penetrating work of legal and political analysis, <em>Born Equal</em> is a vital new portrait of Americas winding road toward equality.</p>...(*_*)9781541605206_<p><strong>From "one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars" (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage</strong></p><p>In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote.</p><p>In <em>Born Equal</em>, the prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional debates that unfolded across these eight decades, when four glorious amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender. At the heart of this era was the epic and ever-evolving idea that all Americans are created equal. The promise of birth equality sat at the base of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. But in the nineteenth century, remarkable American women and menespecially Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincolnelaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out from Seneca Falls to the halls of Congress, from Bleeding Kansas to Gettysburg, from Fords Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world.</p><p>An ambitious narrative history and a penetrating work of legal and political analysis, <em>Born Equal</em> is a vital new portrait of Americas winding road toward equality.</p>...9781541605206_Basic Bookslibro_electonico_9781541605206_9781541605206Akhil ReedInglésMéxico2025-09-16T00:00:00+00:002025-09-16T00:00:00+00:00Basic Books