Title: The Reconstruction justice of Salmon P. Chase : In Re Turner and Texas v. White /
Authors: Hyman, Harold Melvin, 1924-
Publisher: University Press of Kansas,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Chase, Salmon P.; Judges United States Biography; Slavery Law and legislation United States History; African Americans Civil rights History; Reconstruction.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Abstract: The demise of the Confederacy left a legacy of legal arrangements that raised fundamental and vexing questions regarding the legal rights and status of former slaves and the status of former Confederate states. As Harold Hyman shows, few individuals had greater impact on resolving these difficult questions than Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1865 to 1873. Hyman argues that in two cases--In Re Turner (1867) and Texas v. White (1869)--Chase combined his abolitionist philosophy with an activist jurisprudence to help dismantle once and for all the deposed machineries of slavery and the Confederacy. --from publisher description.
Contents: Preparation -- Practice -- Politician and attorney general for runaway slaves -- Down the slippery slope to secession -- Civilizing America's Civil War -- Means and ends in the Union's evolving war aims -- Matters momentous and mundane in Reconstruction -- Freedom's meanings: states' wrongs and citizens' rights -- In Re Turner: it's hour come 'round at last -- Texas v. White: national motto or final solution? _- Epilogue: Fulfilled and unfulfilled pledges.