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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... prevent a better integration of their suggestions. I am deeply grateful for the generosity with which collocutors shared their precious time discussing a subject so important to me and giving feedback at various stages of writing. Even ...
... prevent many private and state civil rights abuses. Congress can pass any laws preventing intrusions on liberty that it finds to be rationally related to slavery. The amendment ended all aspects of the South's peculiar institution ...
... preventing the spread of slavery into the Western territories but not to its total abolition. This stance fell short of the full implications of the Republicans' perspective on the Fifth Amendment. Only in the midst of the Civil War did ...
... prevent the spread of slavery, siding with the prejudices of other prominent government officials. For instance, during debates on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, Senator Albert G. Brown declared that “negroes are not men, within the meaning ...
... preventing these forms of degradations. In the antebellum South, the law left slave families beholden to their masters' economic interests. Slaves could not enter into contracts, so their marriages were not legally recognized. Spouses ...
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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