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The U.S. Constitution of 1787 was famously complicit with slavery.  Lincoln was aware of the Constitution’s flaws, but believed it created space for effective political action by a committed antislavery majority. James H. Read (Poli Sci, St Benedict and St. John’s) is the author of four books, including Sovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery (2023), on Lincoln’s preference for “time, discussion, and the ballot box,” rather than violence, to settle big disagreements. Friday Sept. 19 at 11:30 a.m. in the 1930 Classroom in the Rockefeller Center. Sponsored by the Political Economy Project.