In her provocative new book, “The Second,” the historian Carol Anderson examines America’s history of racist legal decisions around gun rights, arguing that the Second Amendment was intended to guarantee white slaveholders a fighting force to suppress slave insurrections.In her provocative new book, “The Second,” the historian Carol Anderson examines America’s history of racist legal decisions around gun rights, arguing that the Second Amendment was intended to guarantee white slaveholders a fighting force to suppress slave insurrections.Read MoreBooks and Literature, Second Amendment (US Constitution), Black People, Slavery (Historical), Firearms, Anderson, Carol (Author), The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Book)
