The second founding can only be understood as part of a much longer debate about rights, democracy, and equality, one that continues to this day. –Eric Foner, SECOND FOUNDING (2019), p. 20
Colorized image of the 1851 Christiana “riot” (House Divided Project)
Key Terms from Foner’s Introduction
- Federal consensus
- Citizenship
- Comity
- Natural Rights
- Civil Rights
- Political Rights
- Social Rights
- Abolitionism
- Freedom National
- Egalitarian Constitutionalism
- Second Founding
Key Terms from the Fugitive Slave Crisis
- Fugitive Slave clause
- Personal liberty laws
- Fugitive slave laws (1793, 1850)
- Slave stealing laws
- Rendition
- Recaption
- Resistance
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
- Abelman v. Booth (1859)
- Vigilance committees
- Underground Railroad