The Thirteenth Amendment and American freedom : a legal history / Alexander Tsesis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsesis, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--13th Amendment--History.

United States.

Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. The story of how Supreme Court justices have interpreted the Thirteenth Amendment, first through racist lenses after Reconstruction and later influenced by the mod

Contents:

Slavery and its social penetration

On the road to ratification

End of radical ideals and judicial response

Summing up and looking ahead

Theoretical foundation

Thirteenth Amendment and constitutional rights

Contemporary settings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index.

ISBN:

9780814783399

0814783392

9780814784341

0814784348

9781429414869

1429414863

OCLC:

779828319