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Autore |
Tsesis Alexander |
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Titolo |
The Thirteenth Amendment and American freedom [[electronic resource] ] : a legal history / / Alexander Tsesis |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-8147-8339-2 |
0-8147-8434-8 |
1-4294-1486-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Law and legislation - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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