The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

Recorded talks in this archive that name this book, each linked to the moment it comes up:

• A Toast to Lysander Spooner

  Jeff Riggenbach · The Libertarian Tradition

  No sooner had his American Letter mail company been forced into bankruptcy by the U.S. government than Spooner sat down to work on a new book, with the provocative title, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery.

  Hear it at 10:19

• Lysander Spooner and Other Antebellum Radicalism

  Thomas E. Woods, Jr. · The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History Lecture Series

  And Spooner went to the radical conclusion, after the war, two or three decades after he'd written the Unconstitutionality of Slavery, he drew the conclusion that really no constitution can ever be legally binding on anyone who did not himself …

  Hear it at 7:14

• Lincoln vs. the Constitution

  Thomas J. DiLorenzo · Liberty and American Civilization

  And Seward was known to have publicly admitted that Spooner's argument in his book, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, was impregnable.

  Hear it at 49:47

• Lincoln's Tariff War

  Thomas J. DiLorenzo · Liberty and American Civilization

  … by William Seward and Lincoln and others for years, and he wrote a book in the 1840s called The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, and he believed it had never been rebutted and that if the government really wanted to end slavery …

  Hear it at 50:13