Re: [asa] Expelled and ID (slavery)

Burgy -- tair enough -- race in America certainly was and is complex. It's
true that some of the founders were anti-slavery. Still, I get a kick out
of jabbing Constitutional originalists with the fact that the original
Constitution didn't recognize blacks (or women) as full persons under the
law.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:14 PM, j burg <hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/21/08, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lincoln and the civil war were almost a hundred years after the
> Constitution
> > was ratified. The founders didn't address slavery for the most part
> because
> > they didn't consider blacks fully human.
>
> My reading of the early history on the US indicates it was a lot more
> complex than that.
>
> One of the more interesting books is NEGRO PRESIDENT. A review is on my
> website.
>
> Burgy
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com
>

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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