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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... means of plowing a plantation and caring for a household; it was also the way for whites to assert their supposed dominance both as individuals and as members of Southern society. The control that masters had over their slaves did not ...
... mean a representative polity 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 ...
... mean all the institutional practices of hereditary servitude, and the guarantee of personal liberty. The amendment's full effect on the Constitution can best be understood by first examining the oppressive institution it ended. This ...
... means of control, as a leading scholar has pointed out, extended far beyond slave codes. For instance, plantations, such as those in the Deep South, were established in secluded areas to better recognize strangers who might be ...
... means of taking jobs from low-wage white laborers. Some abolitionists, on the other hand, regarded the measure to be inadequate, but many agreed with Garrison that it was “an important step in the right direction.” While 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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