Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment 9780226208947, 022620894X

Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment 9780226208947, 2014023200

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Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment 9780226178202, 022617820X

Who freed America’s slaves? The real story of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution--which codified the rhetoric

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The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History 9780814784341

Tsesis explains why the 13th Amendment is essential to contemporary America, offering a fresh analysis of the role the A

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Free At Last!: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire 9781472555687, 9781853997518, 9781472504494, 9781472502957

How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into

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Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitive Slaves on the Kenya Coast, 1873 to 1907 [Reprint ed.] 0367015706, 9780367015701

Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitives Slaves on the Kenya Coast,I 873 to 1907 is a chronological account of the re

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The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment 9780231520133

In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteen

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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union 9781469627311, 9781469627328, 2015032054

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North Carolina Unionists and the Fight over Secession 9781439666050, 9781625859372

A history of the division among state leaders surrounding secession, and those who opposed it before the Civil War. This

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Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment 9781933995250

This past June, the Supreme Court decided a question at the heart of one of America's most impassioned debates, rul

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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment 9781629793238, 9781629797953, 2016951184

Perfect for Women's History Month, here is the story of the extraordinary Alice Paul, a leader in the long struggle

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