Research Catalog

Title

• A new birth of freedom : the Republican Party and freedmen's rights, 1861 to 1866 / Herman Belz.

Author

Belz, Herman

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

xxi, 199 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"A New Birth of Freedom is an account of how laws, policies, and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War. A study in legal and constitutional history, it complements and forms a necessary predicate to the social history of emancipation that is the principal focus of contemporary Civil War scholarship. The relevance of the legal dimension in the struggle for black freedom is attested by the observation that many slaves "learned the letter of the law so they could seemingly recite from memory" passages from congressional measures prohibiting the return of escaped slaves to disloyal owners and guaranteeing their personal liberty."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Reconstructing America ; no. 5

Uniform Title

Reconstructing America (Series) no. 5.

Subject

• African Americans > History
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Emancipation Legislation and the Right of Personal Liberty, 1862 3 -- 2 Military Service and National Citizenship 17 -- 3 Presidential Reconstruction and Freedmen's Policy 35 -- 4 Congressional Reconstruction and Freedmen's Rights 51 -- 5 Freedmen's Bureau Legislation and Civil Rights 69 -- 6 The Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1865 92 -- 7 Civil Rights, Federalism, and the Thirteenth Amendment 113 -- 8 Equality Before the Law 138 -- 9 The Civil Rights Settlement of 1866 157.

ISBN

• 0823220109 (hc.)
• 0823220117 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99088242^

OCLC

42935819

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library