“A Covenant with Death”

Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College, a distinguished visitor to Gustavus, and the leading historian of slavery and the law, talks about  the proslavery U.S. Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall’s buying  and selling of enslaved people, the proslavery jurisprudence of the  antebellum Supreme Court, and the present-day monuments conflict. Click here for a link.