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The promises of liberty [electronic resource] : the history and contemporary relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment / edited by Alexander Tsesis

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New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
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xxiii, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
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Tsesis, Alexander
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Contents
Introduction : the Thirteenth Amendment's revolutionary aims / Alexander Tsesis -- In pursuit of constitutional abolitionism / James M. McPherson -- The Civil War, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment : understanding who freed the slaves / Paul Finkelman -- Citizenship and the Thirteenth Amendment : understanding the deafening silence / Michael Vorenberg -- Emancipation and civic status : the American experience, 1865-1915 / William M. Wiecek -- Convict labor in the post-Civil War South : involuntary servitude after the Thirteenth Amendment / David M. Oshinsky -- The Thirteenth Amendment and a new deal for civil rights / Risa L. Goluboff -- The workers' freedom of association under the Thirteenth Amendment / James Gray Pope -- The badges and incidents of slavery and the power of Congress to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment / George A. Rutherglen -- The promise of congressional enforcement / Rebecca E. Zietlow -- Protecting full and equal rights : the floor and more / Aviam Soifer -- Forced labor revisited : the Thirteenth Amendment and abortion / Andrew Koppelman -- The slave power undead : criminal justice successes and failures of the Thirteenth Amendment / Andrew E. Taslitz -- Toward a Thirteenth Amendment exclusionary rule as a remedy for racial profiling / William M. Carter, Jr. -- Immigrant workers and the Thirteenth Amendment / Maria L. Ontiveros -- A Thirteenth Amendment agenda for the twenty-first century : of promises, power and precaution / Darrell A. H. Miller -- Epilogue: the enduring legacy of the Thirteenth Amendment / Robert J. Kaczorowski.
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9780231141444 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231520133 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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