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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... race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual preference, encroach upon the victims' dignitary rights and harm overall welfare. Within the context of a constitutional republic, by which I mean a representative polity established on fundamental law ...
... racial slavery to a country whose core law protects fundamental liberties. The Thirteenth Amendment is not merely a positive prescription against slavery; it is a normative statement about the intrinsic value of freedom. It is both an ...
... racial and economic controls founded on racial subjugation. Children learned their identity within this hierarchical structure; husbands, and more rarely wives, took lovers from their slaves; and, at death, testaments were written ...
... racial inequality seem to be efficient, thereby attributing a sense of capitalistic necessity. The means of control, as a ... race made all whites eligible for slave ownership. Whiteness was therefore itself a vaunted social station that ...
... racial cause with their rich brethren in maintaining the status quo.16 The widely held sense of racial superiority was partly the result of Southern children's daily exposure to the tyranny of forced labor. Children who lived on ...
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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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