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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... Political Abandonment of Reconstruction 59 B. Supreme Court Abandonment of Reconstruction 61 1. Early Opinions 62 2. Relinquishment of Thirteenth Amendment Principles 67 C. A Ray of Hope: Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer 82 D. Summing Up 92 4 ...
... political alternatives for ending this hierarchy of privilege. Slave ownership became not only a means of plowing a plantation and caring for a household; it was also the way for whites to assert their supposed dominance both as ...
... political structure that was linked to slavery. The amendment also changed the dynamic between state and federal sovereignty, granting Congress the authority to protect civil rights. In fact, I argue that the amendment requires the ...
... political and social events was so pervasive that virtually all the cataclysmic events of the nineteenth century were conflicts over whether slavery should spread westward or eventually be abolished. I reflect not only on the political ...
... political realm to spread the institution. The Thirteenth Amendment reflects the legal triumph, after the Civil War, of abolitionist aspirations. Each generation is left to reconsider the amendment's pertinence against any remaining ...
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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