From property to person : slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862
Examines the public and political debates in the North during the US Civil War over southerners' private property rights and explains how these deliberations set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
Print Book, English, c2005
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, c2005
History
x, 298 p ; 24 cm.
9780807130421, 0807130427
1170613743