How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

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African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was difficult.

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

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