Dark Bargain Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution [Audiobook]

Lawrence Goldstone chronicles the forging of the Constitution through the prism of the crucial compromises made by men consumed with the needs of the slave economy. As the daily debates and backroom conferences in inns and taverns stretched through July and August of that hot summer - and as the philosophical leadership of James Madison waned - Goldstone clearly reveals how tenuous the document was and how an agreement between unlikely collaborators - John Rutledge of South Carolina, and Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut - got the delegates past their most difficult point. Dark Bargain recounts an event as dramatic and compelling as any in our nation's history....