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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... senators voted for and 12 against. After President James Buchanan took the unusual step of signing the Corwin Amendment, three states ratified it, and only the onset of the Civil War stopped it from gaining further momentum.3 The ...
... Senate, John Henderson of Missouri introduced the proposal on January 13, 1864.4 The Senate Committee of the Judiciary reported the final language for the amendment's first section, which the committee had appropriated from the ...
... Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, recognized that slavery had “curse[d] the country” and brought “untold miseries.”10 The 1864 and 1865 congressional debates on the proposed amendment indicate that many of the amendment's ...
... senators like John Calhoun, and representatives like Henry Wise owned slaves and acted in the political realm to spread the institution. The Thirteenth Amendment reflects the legal triumph, after the Civil War, of abolitionist ...
... Senator Albert G. Brown declared that “negroes are not men, within the meaning of the Declaration. If they were, Madison, and Jefferson, and Washington, all of whom lived and died slaveholders, never could have made it, for they never ...
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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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