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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... society. The control that masters had over their slaves did not only involve economic oppression. American society viewed slaves in commodification terms; thereby, the spurious right to own human chattel eclipsed slaves' rights to live ...
... society have the right to pursue self-defined goals, so long as they do not arbitrarily infringe on the fundamental rights of others. Restrictions on autonomy that are predicated on arbitrary characteristics, such as race, ethnicity ...
... . The task of resurrecting the Thirteenth Amendment into an effective civil rights instrument should begin with an understanding of slavery's broad effect on U.S. society. PART I 1 Slavery and Its Social Penetration Study of Preface | 7.
... Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage elected him to be its president. At the constitutional convention the same year, George Mason and Gouverneur Morris argued against ...
... society. The antebellum Constitution was marked by a glaring contradiction with its protection of both liberty and slavery. In an article first published in 1850, Frederick Douglass, who had escaped from slavery in his youth and became ...
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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