Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

Abstract

Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Many important colonists who participated in the American Revolution believed that the war was, as George Washington observed, for the purpose of rescuing America from . . .Slavery.Yet he and his fellow Founding Fathers allowed slavery to exist by enshrining it in the Constitution in the form of the Three-Fifth Compromise.How did Washington and those like him rationalize the legalization of slavery