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The forgotten emancipator : James Mitchell Ashley and the ideological origins of Reconstruction / Rebecca E. Zietlow, The University of Toledo College of Law.
Van Pelt Library E415.9.A77 Z54 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zietlow, Rebecca E., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ashley, James Mitchell, 1824-1896.
- Ashley, James Mitchell.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. House.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator
- Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom
- Free labor and wage slavery: the labor and antislavery movements
- Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision
- Ashley in Congress, 1859-1863
- The Thirteenth Amendment and a new republic
- Enforcing the Thirteenth Amendment: Reconstruction and a positive right to free labor
- After Congress: the old antislavery guard and the northern worker
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107095274
- 1107095271
- 9781107479234
- 1107479231
- OCLC:
- 991826679
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