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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... passed the proposed amendment in 1864, but because of Democratic congressional gains in the 1862 election the proposal initially had failed to muster sufficient votes in the House. However, after President Abraham Lincoln was reelected ...
... passed for the express purpose of ending oppression has an important communicative value that commercial regulations do not. In conclusion, I touch upon several current issues. First, I argue that the federal legislature can prohibit ...
... passed laws in 1818 and 1820 that severely punished participants of the slave trade, calls for reopening it continued to be heard until the Civil War. Supporters of the slave trade, particularly those from South Carolina and Louisiana ...
... passed without any dissenting votes at the Constitutional Convention, required fugitives to be returned “on demand” and prohibited free states from liberating them. Douglass denounced the provision for making “the whole land one vast ...
... passed by a majority of 100,590 popular votes. Similar exclusionary provisions were found in Indiana law.21 Travel restrictions were not the only burdens on Northern black freedom. The Oregon constitution further forbade blacks from ...
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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