Who Counted as “the People” in the U.S. Constitution? Our Founding Fathers’ Ideas about Race, Gender, & Citizenship in 1787

Tuesday, January 21
9″25 to 10:05 a.m.
Roy Room, Dion Family Student Center

Who Counted as “the People” in the U.S. Constitution? Our Founding Fathers’ Ideas about Race, Gender, & Citizenship in 1787 with Alexandra Garrett, Assistant Professor, SMC History Dept. 

This talk will do a deep dive into who, exactly, the Founding Fathers conceived as “counting” in the political body of a new country called United States. The answers may surprise you! Dr. Garrett will give the historical background of where and why white people, Black people, indigenous people, and immigrants appeared in our country’s founding document, and connect our past to our current unequal society.