David Waldstreicher teaches history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification and Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution. Most recently he has edited the Diaries of John Quincy Adams for the Library of America, and is finishing a new biography, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley.
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