The forgotten emancipator : James Mitchell Ashley and the ideological origins of Reconstruction / Rebecca E. Zietlow, the University of Toledo College of Law
Published
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator -- Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom -- Free labor and wage slavery: the labor and antislavery movements -- Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision -- Ashley in Congress, 1859-1863 -- The Thirteenth Amendment and a new republic -- Enforcing the Thirteenth Amendment: Reconstruction and a positive right to free labor -- After Congress: the old antislavery guard and the northern worker -- Epilogue
Summary
Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Ashley
