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4 Aug 2016, 8:00 am
Green, University of Mississippi School of Law, has posted Duly Convicted: The Thirteenth Amendment as Procedural Due Process, which is forthcoming in Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy: Charles Sumner (LC)This paper argues for four implications of the Thirteenth Amendment’s crime exception — “except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted” — for assessing the influence of abolitionists’ radical… [read post]
22 Dec 2021, 8:28 am
Both bridges were named in honor of the famous 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass who lived in Washington, D.C., for the last years of his life and whose home is now a national park in the District. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 4:30 am
White plans to work on a book she is writing about her great-great-grandparents Jane Jackson and William Jackson, who were active in the American abolitionist movement. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 10:06 am
The language of the thirteenth amendment was lifted almost verbatim from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which was then incorporated into the constitutions of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois before the Civil War. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 10:19 am
Wisconsin takes great pride in its antislavery heritage, particularly the Northwest Ordinance (1787), which ensured that Wisconsin would be a free state, and the Booth Cases (1854, 1859), in which Wisconsin stood alone in defying the federal government’s attempt to turn northerners into slavecatchers. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 6:24 pm
Ashley represented northwest Ohio in the United States House of Representatives from 1858 to 1868. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 4:02 am
The language of the Thirteenth Amendment is taken from the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 3:31 am
The language of the Thirteenth Amendment is taken from the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm
Although slavery still had not been abolished in all the states, things definitely were moving in the right direction.By 1820, most of the Founding Fathers were dead and Thomas Jefferson’ party (the Democratic Party) had become the majority party in Congress.In 1789, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery in a federal territory. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 8:21 am
But an immediatist abolitionist could not have been elected to the presidency in 1860. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am
”) True, the Northwest Ordinance contained its own Fugitive Slave Clause. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 1:39 pm
This is an obvious reference to the those who, in the 1850s, argued that abolitionists had a duty to submit to the Fugitive Slave Act and other unjust proslavery laws. [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 1:01 am
Lehrman emphasizes Lincoln’s moral arguments, but Lincoln wasn’t exactly addressing an audience of abolitionists. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 9:47 pm
I have called it "the compromise of 1787," preceding the better-known compromises of 1819 and 1850.Meeting in New York that summer, the Continental Congress passed the so-called Northwest Ordinance. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Federation and Secession, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 6:57 am
It became a lynchpin of the moral and constitutional arguments of the nineteenth-century abolitionists. [read post]
4 Jul 2021, 8:00 am
It became a lynchpin of the moral and constitutional arguments of the nineteenth-century abolitionists. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 7:18 am
It became a lynchpin of the moral and constitutional arguments of the nineteenth-century abolitionists. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 5:26 am
It became a lynchpin of the moral and constitutional arguments of the nineteenth-century abolitionists. [read post]
