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A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a nation of rights /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Laura F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:New histories of American law.
Subjects:
Law > United States > History > 19th century.
Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Law and legislation.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Table of Contents:
  • The United States and Its Use of the People
  • The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions
  • Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order
  • The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order
  • The Possibilities of Rights
  • The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights.