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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... racial slavery to a country whose core law protects fundamental liberties. The Thirteenth Amendment is not merely a positive prescription against slavery; it is a normative statement about the intrinsic value of freedom. It is both an ...
... racial and economic controls founded on racial subjugation. Children learned their identity within this hierarchical structure; husbands, and more rarely wives, took lovers from their slaves; and, at death, testaments were written ...
... racial inequality seem to be efficient, thereby attributing a sense of capitalistic necessity. The means of control, as a leading scholar has pointed out, extended far beyond slave codes. For instance, plantations, such as those in the ...
... racial cause with their rich brethren in maintaining the status quo.16 The widely held sense of racial superiority was partly the result of Southern children's daily exposure to the tyranny of forced labor. Children who lived on ...
... racial domination that it offered only a deceptive shadow of freedom. Their movement was severely restricted. Some Southern states forbade free blacks from entering at all, coupling the prohibition with the imposition of severe fines ...
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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