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The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 1 Volume 1

The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 1 Volume 1

Lash, Kurt T.

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Law

ISBN10: 022668878X
ISBN13: 9780226688787
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Apr 9 2021
Pages: 632
Weight: 3.45
Height: 1.50 Width: 8.70 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution--together known as the Reconstruction Amendments--abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom.

Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments and contains materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume 2 covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional debates to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post-Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.

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