This book discusses the institution of slavery and how it relates to the Constitution.

Contributors include W. B. Allen, Harvey Mudd College; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford University; Kenneth M. Holland, University of Vermont; Glenn Loury, Harvard University; Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University; Herbert J. Storing, University of Virginia; and William E. Wiecek, Syracuse University. This is the seventh volume in a series published by AEI's bicentennial project, A Decade of Study of the Constitution.

Robert A. Goldwin is a resident scholar of constitutional studies at AEI. Art Kaufman is a research assistant in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.