The Promises of Liberty : : The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment /

The Promises of Liberty : : The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment / / ed. by Alexander Tsesis.

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In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to issues of liberty, justice, and equality. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, reasserting the radical, egalitarian di...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Carter, William M.,
Davis, David Brion,
Finkelman, Paul,
Goluboff, Risa L.,
Kaczorowski, Robert J.,
Koppelman, Andrew,
McPherson, James M.,
Miller, Darrell A. H.,
Ontiveros, Maria L.,
Oshinsky, David M.,
Pope, James Gray,
Rutherglen, George A.,
Soifer, Aviam,
Taslitz, Andrew E.,
Tsesis, Alexander,
Vorenberg, Michael,
Wiecek, William M.,
Zietlow, Rebecca E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Tsesis, Alexander,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: The Rocky Road to Freedom
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part 1. Historical Settings
  • 2. In Pursuit of Constitutional Abolitionism
  • 3. The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment
  • 4. Citizenship and the Thirteenth Amendment
  • 5. Emancipation and Civic Status
  • 6. Convict Labor in the Post- Civil War South
  • 7. The Thirteenth Amendment and a New Deal for Civil Rights
  • 8. The Workers' Freedom of Association Under the Thirteenth Amendment
  • Part 2. Current Legal Landscapes
  • 9. The Badges and Incidents of Slavery and the Power of Congress to Enforce the Thirteenth Amendment
  • 10. The Promise of Congressional Enforcement
  • 11. Protecting Full and Equal Rights
  • 12. Forced Labor Revisited
  • 13. The Slave Power Undead
  • 14. Toward a Thirteenth Amendment Exclusionary Rule as a Remedy for Racial Profiling
  • 15. Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment
  • 16. A Thirteenth Amendment Agenda for the Twenty- first Century
  • 17. Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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