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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... Statute and Proclamation 34 B. Congressional Debates on the Thirteenth Amendment's Meaning 37 C. The Immediate Aftermath of Liberation 48 1. What Sort of Freedom? 48 2. Legal Protections 53 3 End of Radical Ideals and Judicial Response ...
... statutes against present-day human rights violations, such as the trafficking of foreign workers as sex slaves and the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers as peons. To pass constitutional scrutiny, such laws must be ...
... statutes that rest on the Thirteenth Amendment are clearly related to human rights, while those that were enacted under ... statute. Finally, I discuss the Thirteenth Amendment's significance to the labor movement, a subject about which ...
... statute prohibited any free blacks from entering the state or subjected them to fines, but in a show of faux compassion the state allowed law-abiding blacks already living there to remain. Iowa followed an established line of Northern ...
... statute was not. The Court extended the power of owners, giving them “the entire authority,” even without state or federal legislation, to retake fugitive slaves. The case's sole redeeming quality was the Court's position that state ...
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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