The promises of liberty
Subtitle: the history and contemporary relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment
By: edited by Alexander Tsesis.
Contributors: Tsesis, Alexander.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780231141444; 9780231520133
Subjects: United States; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
Description: "[...] 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 dimensions of the Constitution. It also laid the foundations for future civil rights and social justice legislation. Yet subsequent reinterpretation and misappropriation have curbed more substantive change. With constitutional jurisprudence undergoing a revival, The Promises of Liberty provides a full portrait of the Thirteenth Amendment and its potential for ensuring liberty."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Thirteenth Amendment's revolutionary aims / Alexander Tsesis; title: In pursuit of constitutional abolitionism / James M. McPherson; title: The Civil War, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment : understanding who freed the slaves / Paul Finkelman; title: Citizenship and the Thirteenth Amendment : understanding the deafening silence / Michael Vorenberg; title: Emancipation and civic status : the American experience, 1865-1915 / William M. Wiecek; title: Convict labor in the post-Civil War South : involuntary servitude after the Thirteenth Amendment / David M. Oshinsky; title: The Thirteenth Amendment and a new deal for civil rights / Risa L. Goluboff; title: The workers' freedom of association under the Thirteenth Amendment / James Gray Pope; title: The badges and incidents of slavery and the power of Congress to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment / George A. Rutherglen; title: The promise of congressional enforcement / Rebecca E. Zietlow; title: Protecting full and equal rights : the floor and more / Aviam Soifer; title: Forced labor revisited : the Thirteenth Amendment and abortion / Andrew Koppelman; title: The slave power undead : criminal justice successes and failures of the Thirteenth Amendment / Andrew E. Taslitz; title: Toward a Thirteenth Amendment exclusionary rule as a remedy for racial profiling / William M. Carter, Jr.; title: Immigrant workers and the Thirteenth Amendment / Maria L. Ontiveros; title: A Thirteenth Amendment agenda for the twenty-first century : of promises, power and precaution / Darrell A. H. Miller.