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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... labor. Slavery emaciated blacks' civil rights and created an aristocratic class that also disassociated itself from the welfare of white laborers. Slavery spread a tangled web that covered many essential aspects of U.S. society ...
... labor or service by the laws of said state.” The Corwin Amendment, as it came to be known, mustered the necessary two-thirds majority of Congress required by Article V. The vote in the House of Representatives was 133 in favor of ...
... labor but that its second section also empowered Congress to develop legislation that is “rationally” related to ending any remaining “badges and incidents of servitude.” The Court's holding in Jones enables Congress to pass statutes ...
... privileges or immunities, and due process of law.” Richards seems to only credit the Thirteenth Amendment with ending coerced labor, thereby rendering the amendment irrelevant to cases of other civil rights abuses. 6 | Preface.
... labor movement, a subject about which James G. Pope and Lea S. Vandervelde have written more expansively.14 Even though slavery officially ended in the United States in 1865 with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, cases of peonage ...
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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