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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... vote in the House of Representatives was 133 in favor of passage and 65 against; 24 senators voted for and 12 against. After President James Buchanan took the unusual step of signing the Corwin Amendment, three states ratified it, and ...
... votes of several War Democrats.5 The 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 ...
... votes for the president, played a consequential role in both placing slaveholders, instead of principled antislavery advocates, into the executive office, as occurred in 1800 when Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams for the presidency ...
... voting privileges based on wealth and land ownership. Consequently, the wages of Southern laborers tended to be lower than those of their Northern counterparts. For instance, in 1860 the annual average wage for textile workers was $205 ...
... votes. Similar exclusionary provisions were found in Indiana law.21 Travel restrictions were not the only burdens on Northern black freedom. The Oregon constitution further forbade blacks from owning real estate, entering into contracts ...
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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