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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... South's peculiar institution, which spread far beyond plantation husbandry into interstate commerce, government fiscal policy, and private sales transactions.1 Only some of the exploitations associated with slavery were related to ...
... South's desire to protect its peculiar institution and that culminated in an amendment designed to destroy it. To this end, some interpretive discussion of the practices of slavery will be helpful. For a more comprehensive overview ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. whites living in the South who longed for a sense of economic independence and social standing through the ownership of human capital. A. Slavery and the Founding Generation The revolutionary generation ...
... South Carolina, which repeatedly appeared as a leader in the antebellum proslavery camp, opposed the clause, and the Continental Congress did not retain it in the final version of the Declaration. In the decades between the passage of ...
... South. Northern shippers and merchants participated in slave importation in the years preceding the Constitutional Convention until 1808, when Congress legally ended the slave trade. Northern industrialists shipped Africans into the ...
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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