Americans have always struggled over the place of black people in America, starting at the beginning, with the Constitution. Was it a pro-slavery document, as the South Carolinian states-man, John C. Calhoun believed? Or, as Abraham Lincoln argued, did it point toward abolition?  We ask Sean Wilentz -- his new book is “No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding.”

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