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Featuring original essays by Randy E. Barnett, Kurt T. Lash, Lucas E. Morel, Justin Driver, and Diana Schaub.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary
of American independence, yet the nation's founding is controversial now in
ways it has not been in decades.

The American Enterprise Institute offers a
major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the
unique value of their national inheritance.

In the fifth volume of this series, legal
scholars and political scientists discuss how the American Revolution both perpetuated
slavery and created the conditions for its abolition. While hundreds of
thousands of African Americans remained enslaved at the end of the
Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence's assertion of human
equality galvanized slavery's opponents and laid the groundwork for
increasingly egalitarian definitions of American citizenship.

Considering how the Declaration shaped
antislavery thinkers and politicians such as Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln and informed the 14th Amendment demonstrates how the American
Revolution enabled a "new birth of freedom" in the 19th century.

Randy E. Barnett
is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown
University Law Center and faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the
Constitution. He is the coauthor of The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth
Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit
(2021).

Justin Driver
is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the author
of, among other books, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme
Court, and the Battle for the American Mind (2018).

Kurt T. Lash
is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of
Richmond and the founder and director of the Richmond Program on the American
Constitution. He is the author of, among numerous other books, The
Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges or Immunities of American Citizenship (2014).

Lucas E. Morel
is the John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee
University. He is the author of Lincoln and the American Founding (2020), among other books, and is a
member of the US Semiquincentennial Commission.

Diana Schaub
is professor emerita of political science at Loyola University Maryland and a
nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She is a
visiting professor at the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas
at Austin. Her latest book is His
Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (2021).