The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal HistoryNYU Press, 2004 M12 12 - 229 páginas In 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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... Louisiana, sought to depress the prices of slaves by flooding the market with them, thereby decreasing labor costs. The ThreeFifths Clause in Article I, section 2, enabled the South, Douglass's article explained, to obtain a ...
... Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama did not even permit free black sailors to alight from their ships. North Carolina forbade them from traveling beyond the county where they resided. Even the paternalistic form of kindness Southerners ...
... Louisiana Purchase, decide whether or not they would be free or slave states. Such a grant of populist power abrogated the Missouri Compromise's prohibition against slavery anywhere in the Louisiana Purchase Territory above 36 ̊30 ...
... Louisiana Purchase that is part of current-day Minnesota. Taney took up the issue of Dred Scott's citizenship to determine whether a federal court could have jurisdiction over the matter at bar. He found, first, that slaves could have ...
... Louisiana Purchase and the MexicanAmerican War, offered enticing locales to enterprising slave owners. The Constitution needed fundamental alteration to make a clean break with legally countenanced bondage. The Civil War provided the ...
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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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