--- title: "4 Don E. Fehrenbacher Quotes" description: "Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for Th..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/don-e-fehrenbacher-66973_revolution_by-the-time-of-the-revolution-there-was_117117.jpg" --- # Don E. Fehrenbacher **4** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's The Impending Cr ## Quotes by Don E. Fehrenbacher > [“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/by-the-time-of-the-revolution-there-was-in-each-colony-an-accumulated/) [Don E. Fehrenbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-e-fehrenbacher/) [Revolution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/revolution/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/don-e-fehrenbacher-66973_revolution_by-the-time-of-the-revolution-there-was_117117.jpg) > [“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/most-striking-however-was-the-position-taken-in-the-1840s-by-william/) [Don E. Fehrenbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-e-fehrenbacher/) [Abolitionist Movement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abolitionist-movement-213917/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/don-e-fehrenbacher-66973_abolitionist-movemen_most-striking-however-was-the-position-t_467936.jpg) > [“The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/the-framers-of-the-constitution-dealing-with-slavery-as-an-incidental/) [Don E. Fehrenbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-e-fehrenbacher/) [Framers of the constitution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/framers-of-the-constitution/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/don-e-fehrenbacher-66973_framers-of-the-const_the-framers-of-the-constitution-dealing_1406724.jpg) > [“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/during-observance-of-the-bicentennial-of-the-constitution-in-1987/) [Don E. Fehrenbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-e-fehrenbacher/) [Constitution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constitution/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/628/don-e-fehrenbacher-66973_constitutional-conve_during-observance-of-the-bicentennial-of_1766529.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-e-fehrenbacher/#itemlist", "name": "Don E. Fehrenbacher Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery as acknowledge its presence, sanction it, and regulate its conduct.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Don E. 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