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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 80
... blacks' civil rights and created an aristocratic class that also disassociated itself from the welfare of white laborers. Slavery spread a tangled web that covered many essential aspects of U.S. society, devaluing individuals' humanity ...
... black petitioners from Massachusetts expressed their expectation of “great things from men who have made such a noble stand against the designs of their fellow-men to enslave them.” The same year, blacks from Boston and other ...
... black inferiority to justify slavery even though the Declaration proclaimed its support for the principle of universal equality.5 The Declaration's wording was so general, without any accompanying philosophical or policy explanation ...
... blacks, whites, and any other citizens. Until the Thirteenth Amendment's ratification, abolitionists who, like Charles Sumner, argued that Fifth Amendment guarantees applied to blacks and whites held this view in the face of explicit ...
... blacks. An analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment's scope requires a discussion of slavery and its infringement on human liberty. The amendment's prohibitions against involuntary servitude and its grant of congressional enforcement power ...
Contents
11 | |
34 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History Alexander Tsesis Limited preview - 2004 |
The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History Alexander Tsesis No preview available - 2004 |