Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward Larson’s new book, American Inheritance, is an authoritative contribution to the dismal history of race in America. Larson recasts the narrative of the nation’s founding by focusing on vociferous debates about liberty that erupted during three crucial decades of revolutionary fervor. As Larson argues, liberty, slavery and racism— an essential element of slavery—have always been entwined. He is joined by Justice Douglas Miller to discuss how the American Revolution twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding.