Bondage, Freedom & the Constitution

Authors

Eric Foner, Columbia University

Abstract

Linking the papers on this most interesting panel are questions that center on the meaning of freedom. What is freedom? Who has the power to define what freedom is? What are the consequences of slavery and its abolition for Americans' understandings of freedom? In one way or another, these papers, as well as many others in this conference, illuminate these questions.

Keywords

Gender and the Law, Slavery, Race and Ethnicity Issues, Constitutional Law, Legal History

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Law | Law and Gender | Law and Race | Legal History

Recommended Citation

Eric Foner, Bondage, Freedom & the Constitution, 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 2113 (1996).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol17/iss6/18