Research PhD student Jennifer Reiss reexamines the life of Gouverneur Morris through the lens of disability

Gouverneur Morris was a Founder of the United States, best known for writing the “We the People” preamble to the Constitution. He railed against slavery at the Philadelphia convention in 1787. Later working as an envoy in Paris during the French Revolution, he documented his active romantic life there in his diaries.

He also was disabled. When history doctoral student Jennifer Reiss, who has a form of cerebral palsy, learned this detail a few years ago she was intrigued.

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