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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... interests of receiving wages, making parental decisions, choosing spouses, or traveling off plantations. The reach of the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition against the incidents of involuntary servitude extends to 1 Preface.
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Amendment's prohibition against the incidents of involuntary servitude extends to all of these oppressions. The amendment changed the fundamental structure of U.S. law. Before states ratified the ...
... servitude, in all of the States and Territories now owned or which may be hereafter acquired by the United States.” In the Senate, John Henderson of Missouri introduced the proposal on January 13, 1864.4 The Senate Committee of the ...
... servitude. The congressional debates preceding ratification and the congressional powers arising from the amendment's second section were the subjects of Douglas Colbert's work. Both Amar and Colbert drew extensively from the seminal ...
... servitude. After a theoretical analysis, I conclude the work by explaining, both in chapters 6 and 7, why the amendment is a potential wellspring for federal civil rights reform. This point of view aims to refine the typical approach to ...
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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