Promises of Liberty

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.

• 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

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