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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... proposed organization. And even though I kept tinkering with the structure until the very end, the advice I received from them was critical. Most encouraging were the recommendations of David Brion Davis, Eric Foner, James M. McPherson ...
... proposed an amendment in a vain attempt to appease secessionists, reading: “No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic ...
... proposed amendment then ground its way through Congress until its ratification in 1865. The Senate had passed the proposed amendment in 1864, but because of Democratic congressional gains in the 1862 election the proposal initially had ...
... proposed amendment indicate that many of the amendment's proponents were not only committed to setting slaves free but, more generally, to protecting civil liberties. Even those congressmen who opposed the proposed amendment foresaw its ...
... propose an amendment and three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions of states to ratify it. This made the passage of an antislavery amendment wholly impossible in the United States before the Civil War, since, in 1860, slavery was ...
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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