{"id":1376,"date":"2015-10-04T17:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2015-10-04T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T17:14:35","slug":"slavery-and-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2015\/10\/04\/slavery-and-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery and the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historiansagainstslavery.org\/main\/2014\/08\/am-i-still-not-a-man-and-a-brother\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1377\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2015\/10\/Wedgewood-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wedgewood\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2015\/10\/Wedgewood-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2015\/10\/Wedgewood-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2015\/10\/Wedgewood.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What do Dickinson College history majors and Bernie Sanders have in common? \u00a0Lately, they&#8217;ve both been involved (albeit indirectly) in a pretty bitter academic debate over whether or not the original US Constitution should be considered pro-slavery or anti-slavery. \u00a0 The story behind how this unlikely argument has escalated in September and October 2015 can be found in a series of blog posts from the History 404 seminar on the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2015\/09\/18\/arguing-over-slavery-in-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arguing Over Slavery (September 18, 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2015\/09\/21\/the-argument-expands\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Argument Expands (September 21, 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2015\/09\/21\/wilentz-responds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilentz Responds (September 21, 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students in History 117 will be especially interested in that first post (Arguing Over Slavery), which includes a video clip of Senator Bernie Sanders speaking about the &#8220;racist principles&#8221; behind the founding of the US, the response in the pages of the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> from historian Sean Wilentz, and comments from Prof. Pinsker about how this debate might play out in our classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Dickinson College history majors and Bernie Sanders have in common? \u00a0Lately, they&#8217;ve both been involved (albeit indirectly) in a pretty bitter academic debate over whether or not the original US Constitution should be considered pro-slavery or anti-slavery. \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2015\/10\/04\/slavery-and-the-constitution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}