American Enterprise Institute

Slavery, Equality, and the American Revolution

Introduction Notes

  1. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 1, 1760–1776 (Princeton University Press, 1950), 246–47.
  2. Abraham Lincoln, “Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” June 26, 1857, in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, 1848–1858 (Rutgers University Press, 1953), 406.