Title: The Reconstruction justice of Salmon P. Chase
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: History, Judges, Civil rights, Law and legislation, Slavery, African Americans, Biography, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Chase, salmon p. (salmon portland), 1808-1873, Law, united states, cases, Reconstruction
Places: United States
People: Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)
LC classification: KF8745.C45 H95 1997