Foreword: The Rocky Road to Freedom-Crucial Barriers to Abolition in the Antebellum Years, by David Brion Davis 1. Introduction: The Thirteenth Amendment's Revolutionary Aims, by Alexander Tsesis Part 1: Historical Settings 2. In Pursuit of Constitutional Abolitionism, by James M. McPherson 3. The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment: Understanding Who Freed the Slaves, by Paul Finkelman 4. Citizenship and the Thirteenth Amendment: Understanding the Deafening Silence, by Michael Vorenberg 5. Emancipation and Civic Status: The American Experience, 1865-1915, by William M. Wiecek 6. Convict Labor in the Post-Civil War South: Involuntary Servitude After the Thirteenth Amendment, by David M. Oshinsky 7. The Thirteenth Amendment and a New Deal for Civil Rights, by Risa L. Goluboff 8. The Workers' Freedom of Association Under the Thirteenth Amendment, by James Gray Pope Part 2: Current Legal Landscapes 9. The Badges and Incidents of Slavery and the Power of Congress to Enforce the Thirteenth Amendment, by George A. Rutherglen 10. The Promise of Congressional Enforcement, by Rebecca E. Zietlow 11. Protecting Full and Equal Rights: The Floor and More, by Aviam Soifer 12. Forced Labor Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion, by Andrew Koppelman 13. The Slave Power Undead: Criminal Justice Successes and Failures of the Thirteenth Amendment, by Andrew E. Taslitz 14. Toward a Thirteenth Amendment Exclusionary Rule as a Remedy for Racial Profiling, by William M. Carter 15. Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment, by Maria L. Ontiveros 16. A Thirteenth Amendment Agenda for the Twenty-first Century: Of Promises, Power, and Precaution, by Darrell A. H. Miller 17. Epilogue: The Enduring Legacy of the Thirteenth Amendment, by Robert J. Kaczorowski Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
The Thirteenth Amendment freeing the slaves was a landmark not only for the Constitution but for American society. Yet its enforcement and application, beyond the simple fact of emancipation, remain a source of both inspiration and disappointment. In this impressive collection of essays, a stellar group of historians and legal scholars address the Amendment's origins and early applications and the tantalizing though frustrated idea that its promise of equality remains to be fulfilled. From the vantage point of history and the law alike, The Promises of Liberty enables an understanding of why the Thirteenth Amendment mattered and why its complex legacy is so challenging to assess. -- Jack Rakove, Stanford University, author of The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America Alexander Tsesis has edited a fascinating collection of essays from experts who explain why the Thirteenth Amendment did not fulfill the promises of liberty during Reconstruction and afterward. He provides the most extensive scholarly discussion of the history of the Amendment published in decades. Essays on the application of the Thirteenth Amendment to today's controversies are enlightening and provocative. -- Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania These provocative and learned essays restore the Thirteenth Amendment to a central place in the long history of citizenship and freedom in the United States. They demonstrate its continuing relevance to overcoming inequalities in today's society. -- Eric Foner, Columbia University, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Alexander Tsesis 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 Speech Paves the Way for Harmful Social Movements.
An important addition to the scholarship on an important aspect of America's constitutional heritage... Highly recommended.Choice Choice ...this book is an informative treatment of a depressing subject. -- Helen Knowles H-Law This volume is well edited and the essayists expertly chosen. Alexander Tsesis of Loyola University Chicago School of Law has assembled an unusually compact and cogent collection of the best work on the Thirteenth Amendment. -- Christopher Waldrep Journal of American History A riveting, provocative collection of essays by what can only be described as an all-star team of historians and legal analysts. -- Michael S. Green Journal of the Civil War Era
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