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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... 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 proponents were not only committed to setting ...
... recognized the opportunity that the Revolution offered for putting an end to slavery. A group of black New Hampshire petitioners used natural rights terminology to make the point, “[t]hat freedom is an inherent right of the human ...
... 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 autonomy. The means they used varied from ...
... recognized. Spouses could be separated by sale, or the master could send one of them to work on another of his plantations or lease him to another person. Even parent-child relations were not respected in this culture. At least six ...
... recognized bondage. Slavery did not disappear on its own, and probably would not have disappeared following the Civil War without a fundamental change to the Constitution, because it was tied to a racialized worldview. Proslavery ...
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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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