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A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a nation of rights
Title:
A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a nation of rights
Author:
Edwards, Laura F., author.
ISBN:
9781107008793

9781107401341
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
New histories of American law

New histories of American law.
Contents:
The United States and Its Use of the People -- The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions -- Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order -- The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order -- The Possibilities of Rights -- The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights.