Forgotten Emancipator - James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca E. Zietlow is Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo, College of Law. She is a recipient of the University of Toledo Outstanding Faculty Research award and a leader of the Thirteenth Amendment Project. She is the author of Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution and the Protection of Individual Rights (2006), and her work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Florida Law Review, and the Wake Forest Law Journal. Klappentext Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley. Zusammenfassung Zietlow uses the life of James Mitchell Ashley as a unique lens through which to explore the ideological origins of Reconstruction! the political antislavery movement! and the constitutional changes wrought in this era. For scholars of nineteenth-century history! as well as the history of American slavery! abolition! and emancipation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; 1. James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator; 2. Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom; 3. Free labor and wage slavery - the labor and antislavery movements; 4. Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision; 5. Ashley in Congress, 1859-63; 6. The thirteenth amendment and a new republic; 7. Enforcing the thirteenth amendment: reconstruction and a positive right to free labor; 8. After Congress: the 'Old Antislavery Guard' and the northern worker; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca E. Zietlow, Zietlow Rebecca E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107095274
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09527-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery