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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... citizens. That power is profoundly tied to this country's collective passion for liberty. Throughout its history, the nation has often fallen woefully short of its self-image as a free republic of equals, particularly when slavery was ...
... citizens who tolerated and participated in an institution that was contrary to core national commitments. Even though it excluded the antislavery passages, the Declaration of Independence nevertheless established liberty as a chief ...
... citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular Territory of the United States, and who had committed no offence against the laws, could hardly be ...
... 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 constitutional provisions to the ...
... citizens from seizing, arresting, or detaining anyone claimed as a fugitive slave or from aiding others in doing the same. Violators were subject to not more than five years imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. Commonly, state Slavery and ...
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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