A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction
Subtitle: a nation of rights
By: Laura F. Edwards, Duke University
Series: New histories of American law; New histories of American law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781107401341; 9781107008793
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Law; Civil rights; Law and legislation; African Americans; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The United States and Its Use of the People; title: The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions; title: Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order; title: The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order; title: The Possibilities of Rights; title: The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliographic Essay.