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The Promises of Liberty ─ The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment
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In These Original Essays. America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to issues of liberly, 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 instice legislation. Yet subsequent reinterpretation and misappropriation have curbed more substantive change. With contitutional jurisprudence undergoing a revival. The Promises of Liberty provides a full portrail of the Thirteenth Amendment and its potential for ensuring liberty.
The collection begins with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis. who discusses the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment to achieve its framers objectives. The next piece, by Alexander Tsesis. provides a detailed account of the Amendment's revolutionary character. James M. MePherson, another Pulitzer recipient, recounts the influence of abolitionists on the ratification process, and Paul Finkelman focuses on who freed the slaves and President Lincoln's commitment to ending slavery. Michael Vorenberg revisits the nineteenth century's understanding of freedom and citizenship and the Amendment's small role in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods. William M. Wiecek shows how the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation once rendered the guarantee of freedom nearly illusory, and the collection's third Pulitzer Prize winner, David M. Oshinsky, explains how peonage undermined the prohibition against compulsory service.
Subsequent essays relate the Thirleenth Amendment to congressional authority, hate crimes legislation, the labor movement, and immigrant rights. These chapters analyze unique features of the Amendment along with its elusive meanings and affirm its power to reform criminal and immigration law, affirmative action policies, and the protection of civil liberties.
The collection begins with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis. who discusses the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment to achieve its framers objectives. The next piece, by Alexander Tsesis. provides a detailed account of the Amendment's revolutionary character. James M. MePherson, another Pulitzer recipient, recounts the influence of abolitionists on the ratification process, and Paul Finkelman focuses on who freed the slaves and President Lincoln's commitment to ending slavery. Michael Vorenberg revisits the nineteenth century's understanding of freedom and citizenship and the Amendment's small role in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods. William M. Wiecek shows how the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation once rendered the guarantee of freedom nearly illusory, and the collection's third Pulitzer Prize winner, David M. Oshinsky, explains how peonage undermined the prohibition against compulsory service.
Subsequent essays relate the Thirleenth Amendment to congressional authority, hate crimes legislation, the labor movement, and immigrant rights. These chapters analyze unique features of the Amendment along with its elusive meanings and affirm its power to reform criminal and immigration law, affirmative action policies, and the protection of civil liberties.
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He is a professor at the Loyola University School of Law. He is the author of We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law: The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: and Destructive Messages: How Hate Paves the Way for Harmful Social Movements.
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