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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... United States experience into better perspective. The comments of Harold J. Krent, Stewart Macaulay, Sheldon H. Nahmod, Mark D. Rosen, Richard J. Ross, Margaret G. Stewart, and Michael J. Zimmer, who participated in faculty workshops at ...
... are inspirational. Watching our baby daughter, Ruth, has given me further meaning in life and a deeper understanding of the human condition. Preface The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. x | Acknowledgments.
... United States, who imprinted the Constitution with their views, placed a greater value on property rights than on the civil rights of a large segment of the population. Property qualifications throughout the Union silenced blacks and ...
... United States. Its intrusion into political and social events was so pervasive that virtually all the cataclysmic events of the nineteenth century were conflicts over whether slavery should spread westward or eventually be abolished. I ...
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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