Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 battle The Hemingses of Monticello is

The Hemingses of Monticello is history as great literature

what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause

untried vessel…an iron coffin-like ship of which the gloomiest predictions were made

) who posed as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers in a deadly cat-and-mouse game

would not be accompanying them to Washington

Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 battle The Hemingses of Monticello isby Akhil Reed Amar 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 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. In Born Equal,