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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... holding in Jones enables Congress to pass statutes against present-day human rights violations, such as the trafficking of foreign workers as sex slaves and the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers as peons. To pass ...
... holding that nothing in the Constitution enabled Congress to give less protection to slave property than to any other possessions. Taney's decision was intended to undermine the Declaration of Independence's embrace of universal ...
... holdings on the Thirteenth Amendment. Harlan listed interference with black family relationships, the prohibition against black participation on juries, and restrictions against black property ownership as examples of the incidents of ...
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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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