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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... established on fundamental law, each person has the right to pursue and fulfill his or her unobtrusive vision of the good life. In such a society, the common good is the cumulative product of free and equal individuals who pursue ...
... established liberty as a chief national aspiration. The Declaration's terms created a rhetorical dilemma for the nascent republic because the nation relied on eugenic theories about supposed black inferiority to justify slavery even ...
... established in secluded areas to better recognize strangers who might be interested in stirring insurrection.15 Living under a cloud of coercion, slaves sought a modicum of normalcy whereby they could assert personal and familial ...
... established line of Northern legislation designed to keep blacks from moving about the expanding country. Ohio, from 1803, effectively limited the number free blacks who could enter because it was practically impossible for them to pay ...
... established a temporary calm that led to later cataclysm. The Dred Scott decision would later intrude upon this false sense of security to show that as long as slavery remained a legally protected form of property, no compromises could ...
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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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