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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... continued to be heard until the Civil War. Supporters of the slave trade, particularly those from South Carolina and Louisiana, sought to depress the prices of slaves by flooding the market with them, thereby decreasing labor costs. The ...
... continued denigration. Its sweep, therefore, stretched to Northern discriminations as well since free blacks in the North were saddled with many of the same discriminations as their Southern counterparts. During his U.S. tour, Alexis de ...
... continued infringements of such tariffs on the South's “peculiar domestick [sic] institution.” Two years later, Governor James Hamilton Jr. made ready to follow Calhoun's advice, raising a twelve thousand strong state army prepared 24 ...
... continued vitality of slavery against abolitionist firebrands.26 To be sure, the compromises between North and South were not only about regulating slavery. But it was an issue that was central to them all. The Compromise of 1850 best ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. War, continued until conflict over slavery was removed from the sectional debate by constitutional amendment. With the support of Senator Daniel Webster, who delivered the votes of his large ...
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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