The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.
2019
KF4541 .F68 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.
Author
Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393652574 (hardcover)
0393652572 (hardcover)
0393652572 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
Language
English
Description
xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
KF4541 .F68 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.73
Summary
The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. -- adapted from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Origins of the Second Founding
What is Freedom?: The Thirteenth Amendment
Toward Equality: The Fourteenth Amendment
The Right to Vote: The Fifteenth Amendment
Justice and Jurisprudence
Epilogue.
What is Freedom?: The Thirteenth Amendment
Toward Equality: The Fourteenth Amendment
The Right to Vote: The Fifteenth Amendment
Justice and Jurisprudence
Epilogue.