A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction : a nation of rights / Laura F. Edwards, Duke University.
2015
KF366 .E318 2015 (Map It)
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Author
Title
A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction : a nation of rights / Laura F. Edwards, Duke University.
Published
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Call Number
KF366 .E318 2015
ISBN
9781107401341 (paperback)
1107401348 (paperback)
9781107008793 (hardback)
1107008794 (hardback)
1107401348 (paperback)
9781107008793 (hardback)
1107008794 (hardback)
Description
xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)889577465
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1.
The United States and Its Use of the People
16
2.
The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions
42
3.
Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order
64
4.
The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order
90
5.
The Possibilities of Rights
120
6.
The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights
146
Conclusion
174
Bibliographic Essay
177
Bibliography
191
Index
205