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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... interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state.” The Corwin Amendment, as it came to be known, mustered the necessary two-thirds majority ...
... interference with family life. The freedom it created ended family coercion and provided federal protection for parental privacy rights. Blacks were turned into outsiders living in a nation they helped build. Any legal rights they had ...
... that repeatedly demanded more land, more political rights, and less interference in its denial of procedural and substantive rights. On the Road to Ratification The Constitution in its original Slavery and Social Penetration | 33.
... interfere with its peculiar institution. He also attacked Lincoln's hesitancy on emancipation.15 Stevens sought to make the Thirteenth Amendment's scope sweeping, even vociferously espousing a project to provide reparations for the ...
... interference with black family relationships, the prohibition against black participation on juries, and restrictions against black property ownership as examples of the incidents of slavery. Senator Henry Wilson waxed eloquent about ...
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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