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Many of the leading American revolutionaries enslaved men and women while some leaders emphatically opposed slavery. For the first part of the twentieth century there was limited attention on America’s revolutionary leaders’ relationship to slavery, but it became a topic of great interest after the Civil Rights Movement. Professor Hershman describes the relationship each of these leading revolutionaries had with slavery: George Washington, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Laurens, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and James Madison.

James H. Hershman, Jr., served as a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Government Affairs Institute from 1997 until his retirement in 2010. From 1995 to 1997, he served on the senior staff at the Brookings Institution. Before going to Brookings, he served as an instructor on congressional affairs for the federal government and earlier in his career held teaching positions at Wake Forest University and the University of Virginia. His Ph.D. in Southern History is from the University of Virginia. He contributed an essay to The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia and his articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Southern History, Journal of Negro Education, and other journals and online publications. He continues to teach in Georgetown's Graduate Liberal Studies program.

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