Season 4, Episode 12 | Was the Constitution Anti-Slavery? How Frederick Douglass Changed His Mind

America was born with a promise and a lie. Frederick Douglass lived in the gap. How did a fugitive slave become one of the nation’s most radical constitutional thinkers? Why did he reject the Garrisonian view of the Constitution as a “covenant with death” and come to see it as anti-slavery? In this episode of This Constitution, Matthew Brogdon sits down with Bradley Rebeiro, law professor at Brigham Young University and author of Until the Last Yoke Is Broken: The Constitutional Vision ...