Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 sunset and planted the seeds of

and planted the seeds of the victory at Cedar Creek the following month

forged in fire and soon to contend with a nation at war with itself

the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Release date: August 30

inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives

Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 sunset and planted the seeds ofby 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,