| Abolitionism and American Law Contributor(s): McKivigan, John R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815331096 ISBN-13: 9780815331094 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1999 Annotation: This volume's essays reveal that the abolitionists' impact on United States law and the Constitution did not end with the Civil War. The immediate postwar Reconstruction amendments were both rooted in the radically anti-positivistic, natural rights philosophy long espoused by the radical political abolitionists. Implementing protection for black civil rights, however, proved much more difficult. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Constitutional - History |
| Dewey: 342.730 |
| LCCN: 99-52332 |
| Series: History of the American Abolitionist Movement |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.3" W x 9.33" (1.40 lbs) 410 pages |