The Reconstruction justice of Salmon P. Chase
Subtitle: In Re Turner and Texas v. White
By: Harold M. Hyman.
Series: Landmark law cases & American society
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Chase, Salmon P. 1808-1873.; Judges -- United States -- Biography.; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-174) and index.