The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9781107479234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Rebecca E. Zietlow

Opis

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Recenzje

'An impressively informative and original work of seminal scholarship from beginning to end, The Forgotten Emancipator is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library 19th century American history collections and supplemental studies reading lists.' Midwest Book Review

Spis treści

Prologue; 1. James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator; 2. Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom; 3. Free labor and wage slavery – the labor and antislavery movements; 4. Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision; 5. Ashley in Congress, 1859–63; 6. The thirteenth amendment and a new republic; 7. Enforcing the thirteenth amendment: reconstruction and a positive right to free labor; 8. After Congress: the 'Old Antislavery Guard' and the northern worker; Epilogue.