Did the Constitution Pave the Way to Emancipation?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Relying on the Fifth Amendment, they argued that Northern states could grant due process rights to accused runaways, making it harder for masters to reclaim their "self-stolen" property.
48% : This theory of the Constitution shaped the development and execution of what Oakes terms the "Antislavery Project," a decades-long plan to constrict the expansion of slavery, deprive it of oxygen, and ultimately place it on what Lincoln called "a course of ultimate extinction."
45% : In a 2017 discussion of what he called the "new consensus history" -- especially the histories of slavery and capitalism that later informed the 1619 Project -- Oakes derided contemporary scholarship for offering only "a history and politics of hopelessness.
39% : The New Deal was irredeemably racist.

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