Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History
Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize
Winner of the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize • Winner of the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History • Winner of the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Award
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021

A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War.