Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2-26-2011
Keywords
Constitution, slavery, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, 13th Amendment
Abstract
This short piece is taken from a review of the three important books considered below. This review is part of my current exploration of the historiography of slavery and the Constitution in Civil War legal history.
Brian McGinty, Lincoln and the Court; Stephen C. Neff, Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War; Lea VanderVelde, Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier
Disciplines
Constitutional Law