The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 1

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Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution8212 together known as the Reconstruction Amendments8212 abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively This twovolume 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 freedomVolume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments and contains materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume 2 covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional debates to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles As a whole, the volumes

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