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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.

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Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. 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).

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