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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... Crimes C. Contemporary Instances of Peonage Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index About the Author 101 101 104 137 140 143 147 149 154 161 163 201 221 229 Acknowledgments Contacts I made with friends and acquaintances during the ...
... crimes law that would prohibit certain acts not currently covered under any federal statute. Finally, I discuss the Thirteenth Amendment's significance to the labor movement, a subject about which James G. Pope and Lea S. Vandervelde ...
... the following form: “Section 1. Slavery being incompatible with a free government is forever prohibited in the United States; and involuntary servitude shall be permitted only as a punishment for crime. 38 | On the Road to Ratification.
... crime. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce the foregoing by appropriate legislation.” But it was the Senate Judiciary Committee's version of the bill, which it reported on February 10, 1864, that would become the final ...
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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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