Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution Book

Forty Years Later: A New Foreword Robin L. Einhorn Einhorn, Robin L.

Foreword to the First Edition E. P. Thompson Thompson, E. P.

1 Introduction: Beyond Beard 3

Pt. 1 Class Conflict

2 Who Should Rule at Home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution 25

3 The Tenant Rising at Livingston Manor, May 1777 63

4 The Mechanics in New York Politics, 1774-1785 79

5 A Governing Class on the Defensive: The Case of New York 109

Pt. 2 Slavery

6 On Turner, Beard, and Slavery 135

7 The Abolitionist Critique of the United States Constitution 153

8 The Compromise of 1787 185

Pt. 3 The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Historiography

9 Abraham Yates's History of the Movement for the United States Constitution 217

10 Beard, Jefferson, and the Tree of Liberty 247

Index 271