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Book Synopsis Slavery and the Commerce Power by : David L. Lightner
Download or read book Slavery and the Commerce Power written by David L. Lightner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America, his politics and personality, and how he came to influence not only Jewish debate but also wider religious and cultural debates in the postwar decades. A worthy sequel to his widely-praised biography of Heschel's early years, Edward Kaplan's new volume draws on previously unseen archives, FBI files, interviews with people who knew Heschel, and analyses of his extensive writings. Kaplan explores Heschel's shy and private side, his spiritual radicalism, and his vehement defence of the Hebrew prophets' ideal of absolute integrity and truth in ethical and political life. Of special interest are Heschel's interfaith activities, including a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican II, his commitment to civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., his views on the state of Israel, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. A tireless challenger to spiritual and religious complacency, Heschel stands as a dramatically important witness.
Book Synopsis Report on the Powers and Duties of Congress Upon the Subject of Slavery and the Slave Trade by : Anonymous
Download or read book Report on the Powers and Duties of Congress Upon the Subject of Slavery and the Slave Trade written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Book Synopsis A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery by : William Jay
Download or read book A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery written by William Jay and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report on the Powers and Duties of Congress Upon the Subject of Slavery and the Slave Trade by : Alvan Stewart
Download or read book Report on the Powers and Duties of Congress Upon the Subject of Slavery and the Slave Trade written by Alvan Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Atherton resolutions, passed in the United States House of Representatives, December 12, 1838, relative to petitions for the abolition of slavery. The resolutions are characterized "as a dangerous invasion of the right of the people to petition Congress, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States."
Book Synopsis The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs by : John Elliott Cairnes
Download or read book The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs written by John Elliott Cairnes and published by London : Parker, Son, and Bourn. This book was released on 1862 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1862, this clear analysis of the issues involved in the American Civil War influenced international opinion.
Book Synopsis The Foreign Slave Trade by : Leonidas W. Spratt
Download or read book The Foreign Slave Trade written by Leonidas W. Spratt and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Slaveholders' Union by : George William Van Cleve
Download or read book A Slaveholders' Union written by George William Van Cleve and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested politics of the early republic, abolitionists cried out that the Constitution itself was a slaveowners’ document, produced to protect and further their rights. A Slaveholders’ Union furthers this unsettling claim by demonstrating once and for all that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic. In this powerful book, George William Van Cleve demonstrates that the Constitution was pro-slavery in its politics, its economics, and its law. He convincingly shows that the Constitutional provisions protecting slavery were much more than mere “political” compromises—they were integral to the principles of the new nation. By the late 1780s, a majority of Americans wanted to create a strong federal republic that would be capable of expanding into a continental empire. In order for America to become an empire on such a scale, Van Cleve argues, the Southern states had to be willing partners in the endeavor, and the cost of their allegiance was the deliberate long-term protection of slavery by America’s leaders through the nation’s early expansion. Reconsidering the role played by the gradual abolition of slavery in the North, Van Cleve also shows that abolition there was much less progressive in its origins—and had much less influence on slavery’s expansion—than previously thought. Deftly interweaving historical and political analyses, A Slaveholders’ Union will likely become the definitive explanation of slavery’s persistence and growth—and of its influence on American constitutional development—from the Revolutionary War through the Missouri Compromise of 1821.
Book Synopsis The African Slave Trade and American Courts by : Paul Finkelman
Download or read book The African Slave Trade and American Courts written by Paul Finkelman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moral Commerce by : Julie L. Holcomb
Download or read book Moral Commerce written by Julie L. Holcomb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers’ complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black. The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement’s historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.
Author :South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :98 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (916 download)
Book Synopsis Reports of the Committee to Whom was Referred the Message of Gov. James H. Adams, Relating to Slavery and the Slave Trade by : South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Download or read book Reports of the Committee to Whom was Referred the Message of Gov. James H. Adams, Relating to Slavery and the Slave Trade written by South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The African Slave Trade by : Judah Philip Benjamin
Download or read book The African Slave Trade written by Judah Philip Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by : Lysander SPOONER
Download or read book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery written by Lysander SPOONER and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Views of American Constitutional Law by : William Goodell
Download or read book Views of American Constitutional Law written by William Goodell and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by : James Oakes
Download or read book The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution written by James Oakes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
Book Synopsis The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause by : Tony Allan Freyer
Download or read book The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause written by Tony Allan Freyer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1849 Chief Justice Taney’s Court delivered a 5-4 decision on the legal status of immigrants and free blacks under the federal commerce power. The closely divided decision, further emphasized by the fact there were eight opinions, played a part in the increasingly contested politics over growing immigration, and the controversies about fugitive slaves and the western expansion of slavery that resulted in the Compromise of 1850. In the decades after the Civil War federal regulation of immigration almost entirely displaced the role of the states. Yet, over a century later, Justice Scalia in Arizona v. US appealed to the era when states exercised greater control over who they allowed to cross their borders; a dissent which has returned the Passenger Cases to the contemporary relevance. The Passenger Cases provide a counter-history that allowed the Court to affirm federal supremacy and state-federal cooperation in Arizona I (2011) and II (2012). In The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause Tony Allan Freyer focuses on the antebellum Supreme Court’s role prescribing state-federal regulation of immigrants, the movement of free blacks within the United States and on the origins, state court decisions, federal precedents, appellate arguments, and opinion-making that culminated in the Court’s decision of the Passenger Cases. The Court’s split decision provided political legitimacy for the 1850 Compromise: enactment of a stronger fugitive slave law, admission of slavery in western territories based on popular vote of residents (popular sovereignty), and the abolition of the slave trade in Washington D.C. The divided opinions in the Passenger Cases also influenced the immigrant and slavery crises which disrupted the balance between free and slave-labor states, culminating in the Civil War. The states did indeed enact laws enabling exclusion of undesirable white immigrants and free blacks. The 5-4 division of the Court anticipated the better known, but even more divisive, views of the Justices in the Dred Scott case (1857). And in considering the post-Reconstruction evolution of new standards by which to judge immigration issues, the Passenger Cases revealed the continuing controversy over how to treat those who wish to come to our country, even as federal law came to dominate the regulation of immigration. These issues continued to complicate immigration law as much today as they did more than a century and a half ago. The persistence of these problems suggested that a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" continued to demand a coherent, humane, and more consistent immigration policy.
Author :South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :94 pages Book Rating :4.A/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Report of the Minority of the Special Committee of Seven by : South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Download or read book Report of the Minority of the Special Committee of Seven written by South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Broken Constitution by : Noah Feldman
Download or read book The Broken Constitution written by Noah Feldman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations
