The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal HistoryIn this narrative history and contextual analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery and freedom take center stage. Alexander Tsesis demonstrates how entrenched slavery was in pre-Civil War America, how central it was to the political events that resulted in the Civil War, and how it was the driving force that led to the adoption of an amendment that ultimately provided a substantive assurance of freedom for all American citizens. |
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... House of Representatives was 133 in favor of passage and 65 against; 24 senators voted for and 12 against. After President James Buchanan took the unusual step of signing the Corwin Amendment, three states ratified it, and only the ...
... House. However, after President Abraham Lincoln was reelected in 1864, his support for the amendment helped sway the House, which adopted the proposal on January 31, 1865.6 After states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, the ...
... section 2, enabled the South, Douglass's article explained, to obtain a “domineering representation” in the House of Representatives. This provided the Southern congressmen with the power to 16 | Slavery and Social Penetration.
... houses to propose an amendment and three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions of states to ratify it. This made the passage of an antislavery amendment wholly impossible in the United States before the Civil War, since, in 1860 ...
... House depended on the number of slaves owned within congressional districts. Even more, the Southern socioeconomic system, which relied on slave labor for a large portion of its manual tasks, made racial inequality seem to be efficient ...
Contents
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End of Radical Ideals and Judicial Response | 59 |
Summing Up and Looking Ahead | 94 |
Theoretical Foundation | 101 |
Thirteenth Amendment and Constitutional Rights | 112 |
Contemporary Settings | 137 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Select Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 221 |
About the Author | 229 |
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