The Reconstruction amendments : the essential documents /
"The amendments to the U.S. Constitution passed in the aftermath of the Civil War not only abolished slavery but reshaped the reach of the Constitution. Kurt Lash has collected documents ranging from campaign speeches and party platforms through personal diaries of leading (and obscure) figures...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Volume 1. Part 1. The antebellum Constitution
- Foundational documents
- Federalism and the structure of antebellum constitutional liberty
- Slavery : antebellum law and politics
- Secession and Civil War
- Part 2. The Thirteenth Amendment
- Drafting
- Ratification
- Volume 2. Part 1. The Fourteenth Amendment
- Drafting
- Ratification
- Part 2. The Fifteenth Amendment
- Drafting
- Ratification
- Appendix.