The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 2
Kurt T. Lash, "The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 2 "
English | ISBN: 022668895X | 2021 | 704 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 022668895X | 2021 | 704 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution—together known as the Reconstruction Amendments—abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom.
Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments along with materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while
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