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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... held a decisive share of power in the highest echelons of national decision making. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished the political structure that was linked to slavery. The amendment also changed the dynamic between state and federal ...
... Held in Bondage elected him to be its president. At the constitutional convention the same year, George Mason and Gouverneur Morris argued against continuing the slave trade. Some powerful Southerners sided with Thomas Jefferson, who ...
... held this view in the face of explicit constitutional provisions to the contrary. Antebellum constitutional efforts to restrict slavery were ingenious but limited in scope. In 1850, Congress used its Article I, section 8, clause 17 ...
... held sense of racial superiority was partly the result of Southern children's daily exposure to the tyranny of forced labor. Children who lived on plantations found slaves willing to act on their slightest whims, which made one ...
... held “under the authority of the United States.”35 While, in 1864, more than three years after Confederate secession, Congress did finally repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, which was ...
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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