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Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? Members of the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln permitted Union forces to enlist Blacks in the Civil War, but as Carol Anderson argues in “The Second,” white fear of armed African-Americans has often shaped legislation around the right to bear arms.Credit.Library of Congress By Randall Kennedy THE SECOND By Carol Anderson In “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,” the historian Carol Anderson argues that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides for a “well regulated militia” and “the right of the people to keep and bear arms,” offers “a particularly maddening set of double standards where race is concerned.” On the one hand, she claims that slaveholding founding fathers insisted on the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights in order to assure themselves of a fighting force willing to suppress slav

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