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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... 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 Reconstruction Congress relied upon it to pass ...
... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, during the state's 1862 constitutional convention, Illinois adopted a constitutional article prohibiting blacks from immigrating to the state, which passed by a majority of 100,590 popular votes ...
... Lincoln's election as a first step to the logical emancipation that framers like Washington, Jefferson, and Madison had foreseen. Even the gradualism of these three founders was unacceptable to the radical opponents of human bondage ...
... Lincoln, who eventually became willing to alter the Constitution, making future compromises with slavery unnecessary.30 Sumner, Henry Wilson, and other congressmen who would be instrumental in passing the Thirteenth Amendment became ...
... Lincoln's 1860 victory of the presidency was a response to Dred Scott. The Republican Party platform called for the abolition of slavery in the territories of the United States. These were not the national abolitionist ambitions that ...
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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