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A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a nation of rights / Laura F. Edwards, Duke University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Laura F., author.
- Series:
- New histories of American law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--United States--History--19th century.
- Law.
- Civil rights--History--19th century.
- Civil rights.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- History.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Legislation.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- The United States and Its Use of the People
- The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions
- Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order
- The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order
- The Possibilities of Rights
- The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107008793
- 1107008794
- 9781107401341
- 1107401348
- OCLC:
- 889577465
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