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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... Southern society. The control that masters had over their slaves did not only involve economic oppression. American society viewed slaves in commodification terms; thereby, the spurious right to own human chattel eclipsed slaves' rights ...
... Southern return on human capital by purchasing Southern goods. The North's willingness to ship Africans provided the South with enough laborers to turn a profit on what otherwise would have been fallow farm land. The proslavery camp ...
... I, 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.
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Representatives. This provided the Southern congressmen with the power to proffer proslavery laws and the numbers to pass them. Another author has recently pointed out that the Three-Fifths Clause also ...
... Southern culture. Before the amendment worked this qualitative change, the Old South built its society around racial and economic controls founded on racial subjugation. Children learned their identity within this hierarchical structure ...
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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