Book contents
- The Forgotten Emancipator
- Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
- The Forgotten Emancipator
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 James Ashley, the Forgotten Emancipator
- 2 Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Meaning of Freedom
- 3 Free Labor and Wage Slavery
- 4 Ashley’s Egalitarian Free Labor Vision
- 5 Ashley in Congress, 1859–1863
- 6 The Thirteenth Amendment and a New Republic
- 7 Enforcing the Thirteenth Amendment
- 8 After Congress
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2017
Book contents
- The Forgotten Emancipator
- Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
- The Forgotten Emancipator
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 James Ashley, the Forgotten Emancipator
- 2 Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Meaning of Freedom
- 3 Free Labor and Wage Slavery
- 4 Ashley’s Egalitarian Free Labor Vision
- 5 Ashley in Congress, 1859–1863
- 6 The Thirteenth Amendment and a New Republic
- 7 Enforcing the Thirteenth Amendment
- 8 After Congress
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Forgotten EmancipatorJames Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction, pp. 178 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
References
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Aynes, Richard L. “On Misreading John Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment,” Yale Law Journal 103 (1993): 57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barnett, Randy E. “Whence Comes Section One? The Abolitionist Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Journal of Legal Analysis 3 (2011): 165.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Benedict, Les. “James M. Ashley, Toledo Politics and the Thirteenth Amendment,” University of Toledo Law Review 38 (2007): 815.Google Scholar
Birney, James G. “Can Congress, under the Constitution, Abolish Slavery in the States?,” The Albany Patriot, May 12, 19, 20, 22, 1847.Google Scholar
Bivens, Josh, Gould, Elise, and Mishel, Lawrence. “Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts,” Economic Policy Institute (January 6, 2015), www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/.Google Scholar
Body, Jessica. “The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People’s ‘Deaths of Despair,’” NPR, March 23, 2017, www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521083335/the-forces-driving-middle-aged-white-peoples-deaths-of-despair.Google Scholar
Case, Anne, and Sir Deaton, Angus. “Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century,” www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/mortality-and-morbidity-in-the-21st-century/.Google Scholar
Curtis, Michael Kent. “John A. Bingham and the Story of American Liberty: The Lost Cause Meets the ‘Lost Clause,’” Akron Law Review 36 (2003): 617.Google Scholar
DeNavas-Walt, Carmen, Proctor, Bernadette D., and Smith, Jessica C.. “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010,” United States Department of Commerce 12 (2011), www.census.gov?prod/2011 pubs/p60-239.pdf.Google Scholar
Douglass, Frederick. “A Change of Opinion Announced,” The North Star, May 15, 1851, reprinted in The Liberator, May 23, 1851.Google Scholar
Douglass, Frederick. “Comments on Gerrit Smith’s Address,” The North Star, March 30, 1849.Google Scholar
Forbath, William E. “The Ambiguities of Free Labor and the Law in the Gilded Age,” Wisconsin Law Review 1985: 767.Google Scholar
Fox, James W. Jr. “Publics, Meanings and the Privileges of Citizenship,” Constitutional Commentary 30 (2015): 567.Google Scholar
Garrison, William Lloyd. “The Constitution: A Covenant with Death and an Agreement with Hell,” Liberator 12 (1842).Google Scholar
Gourevitch, Alex. “Labor Republicanism and the Transformation of Work,” Political Theory 41 (May 2013): 591.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Graber, Mark. “The Second Freedman’s Bureau Bill’s Constitution,” Texas Law Review 94 (2016): 1361.Google Scholar
Graber, Mark. “Subtraction by Addition? The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments,” Columbia Law Review 112 (2012): 1501.Google Scholar
Klarman, Michael J. “Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions,” Virginia Law Review 82 (1996): 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lofton, William H. “Appeal of the Abolitionists to the Northern Working Classes,” The Journal of Negro History 33, no. 3 (July 1948): 249.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McLain, Charles J. “The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth Century America: The First Phase, 1850–1870,” California Law Review 72 (1984): 529.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McPherson, James M. “America’s Greatest Movement,” New York Review of Books, October 27, 2016.Google Scholar
Morgan, Denise C., and Zietlow, Rebecca E.. “The New Parity Debate: Congress and Rights of Belonging,” Cincinnati Law Review 73 (2005): 1347.Google Scholar
Nice, Julie A. “Whither the Canaries? On the Exclusion of Poor People from Equal Constitutional Protection,” Drake Law Review 60 (2012): 1023.Google Scholar
Ontiveros, Maria. “Immigrant Workers’ Rights in a Post-Hoffman World: Organizing around the 13th Amendment,” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 18 (2004): 651.Google Scholar
Ontiveros, Maria. “Is Modern Day Slavery a Private Act or a Public System of Oppression?” Seattle University Law Review 39 (2016): 665.Google Scholar
Pinckney, Darryll. “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” New York Review of Books, January 2, 2017.Google Scholar
Pope, James Gray. “Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of ‘Involuntary Servitude,’” Yale Law Journal 119 (2010): 1474.Google Scholar
Pope, James Gray. “Labor’s Constitution of Freedom,” Yale Law Journal 106 (1997): 941.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pope, James Gray. “Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Law and the Racial Divide in the American Working Class, 1676–1974,” Texas Law Review 94 (2016): 1555.Google Scholar
Pope, James Gray, and Zietlow, Rebecca E.. “The Auto-Lite Strike and the Fight against ‘Wage Slavery,’” University of Toledo Review 38 (2007): 839. Reprinted in Kenneth M. Casebeer, ed., American Labor Struggles and Law Histories (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Post, Robert C., and Siegel, Reva B.. “Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretations of the Family and Medical Leave Act,” Yale Law Journal 112 (2003): 1943.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Richardson, Heather Cox. “Legacies of Lincoln Symposium, Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Principle,” Marquette Law Review (2010): 1383.Google Scholar
Soifer, Aviam. “Federal Protection, Paternalism, and the Virtually Forgotten Prohibition of Voluntary Peonage,” Columbia Law Review 112 (2012): 1607.Google Scholar
tenBroek, Jacobus. “Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Consummation to Abolition and Key to the Fourteenth Amendment,” California Law Review 39 (1951): 171.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
VanderVelde, Lea S. “Henry Wilson, Cobbler of the Frayed Constitution, Strategist of the Thirteenth Amendment,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Politics 15 (2017): 173.Google Scholar
VanderVelde, Lea S. “The Labor Vision of the Thirteenth Amendment,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 138 (1989): 437.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
VanderVelde, Lea S. “The Thirteenth Amendment of Our Aspirations,” University of Toledo Law Review 38(2007): 855.Google Scholar
Wang, Xi. “The Making of Federal Enforcement Laws, 1870–1872,” Chicago Kent Law Review 70 (1995): 1013.Google Scholar
Waterson, Liz, and Swanberg, Jennifer. “Flexible Workplace Solutions for Low-Wage Hourly Workers: A Framework for a National Conversation,” American University Labor and Employment Law Forum 3 (2013): 380.Google Scholar
Weiss, Marley. “Human Trafficking and Forced Labor: A Primer,” ABA Journal on Labor and Employment Law 31 (2015): 1.Google Scholar
Weld, Theodore Dwight. “The Power of Congress over the District of Columbia,” The Antislavery Examiner No. 6. Reprinted from the New York Evening Post, with additions by the author, published by the American Antislavery Society (New York, 1838).Google Scholar
Zedlewski, Sheila R. “Work Activity and Obstacles to Work among TANF Recipients,” The Urban Institute (1999), www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=309091.Google Scholar
Zietlow, Rebecca E. “Free at Last! Anti-Subordination and the Thirteenth Amendment,” Boston University Law Review 90 (2010): 255.Google Scholar
Zietlow, Rebecca E. “The Political Thirteenth Amendment,” Maryland Law Review 71 (2011): 283.Google Scholar
Zietlow, Rebecca E. “A Positive Right to Free Labor,” Seattle University Law Review 39 (2016): 859.Google Scholar
Zietlow, Rebecca E. “The Rights of Citizenship: Two Framers, Two Amendments,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 11 (2009): 1269.Google Scholar
Aarim-Heriot, Najia. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).Google Scholar
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010).Google Scholar
Arnett, Benjamin, ed. Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio (Philadelphia: Publishing House of the AME Church, 1894).Google Scholar
Ashley, Charles S. “Governor Ashley’s Biography and Messages,” in Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena, MT: Rocky Mountain Publishing, 1907).Google Scholar
Baer, Judith A. Equality under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).Google Scholar
Baruch, Mildred C., and Beckman, Ellen J.. Civil War Union Monuments (Washington, DC: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1978).Google Scholar
Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003)Google Scholar
Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (New York: Anchor Books, 2009).Google Scholar
Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age (New York: H. Holt, 2004).Google Scholar
Brandwein, Pamela. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999).Google Scholar
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).Google Scholar
Curtis, Michael Kent. No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986).Google Scholar
Deyrup, Marta Mestrovic, and Harrington, Maura Grace. The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York: Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014).Google Scholar
Efford, Alison Clark. German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Evans, Sara M. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in American (New York: Free Press, 1989).Google Scholar
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharp, 1996).Google Scholar
Finkelman, Paul, Gallagher, Gary W., and Wagner, Margaret E.. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002).Google Scholar
Fladeland, Betty. James Gillespie Birney, Slaveholder to Abolitionist (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955).Google Scholar
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).Google Scholar
Foner, Eric. Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).Google Scholar
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: American’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (New York: Harper Collins, 1988).Google Scholar
Foner, Philip Sheldon. History of the Labor Movement of the United States (New York: International Publishers, 1947).Google Scholar
Foner, Philip S., and Shapiro, Herbert, eds. Northern Labor and Antislavery: A Documentary History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).Google Scholar
Foner, Philip S., and Walker, George E., eds. Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1840–1865 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980).Google Scholar
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: Vintage Books, 1988).Google Scholar
Goluboff, Risa L. The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).Google Scholar
Goodell, William. Views of American Constitutional Law, in Its Bearing upon American Slavery (Utica, NY: Jackson & Chaplain, 1844).Google Scholar
Grubb, Farley. German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709–1920 (New York: Routledge, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Horowitz, Robert F. The Great Impeacher: A Political Biography of James M. Ashley (New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1979).Google Scholar
Jones, William P. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013).Google Scholar
Jones-Deweever, Avis, Peterson, Janice, and Song, Xue, Before and after Welfare Reform: The Work and Well-Being of Low-Income Single Parent Families (Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2003).Google Scholar
Kersch, Ken I. Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kramer, Larry D. The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lee, Sophia Z. The Workplace Constitution: From the New Deal to the New Right (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
LeMay, Michael C. Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013).Google Scholar
Magliocca, Gerard. American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment (New York: NYU Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Mantler, Gordon Keith. Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthews, Jean W. Women’s Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828–1876 (Chicago: Ivan V. Dee, 1997).Google Scholar
Montgomery, David. Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans 1862–1872 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1967).Google Scholar
Montgomery, David. Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).Google Scholar
Nieman, Donald G. To Set the Law in Motion: The Freedman’s Bureau and the Legal Rights of Blacks (Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1979).Google Scholar
Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013).Google Scholar
Paine, Byron. Unconstitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act: Argument of Byron Paine, Esq. and Opinion of Hon. A. D. Smith, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Free Democrat Office, 1854).Google Scholar
Phan, Hoang Gia. Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation (New York: NYU Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Phillips, Wendell. The Constitution: A Proslavery Compact, Or Selections from the Madison Papers (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1844).Google Scholar
Phillips, Wendell. A Review of Lysander Spooner’s Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery (Boston: Andrew Prentiss, 1847).Google Scholar
Richards, Leonard L. Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Richardson, Heather Fox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the Civil War North, 1865–1901 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Richardson, James D., ed. Messages and Papers of the Presidents of the United States, 1789–1897 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1896–99).Google Scholar
Rutherglen, George. Civil Rights in the Shadow of Slavery: The Constitution, Common Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Schultz, David A., ed. Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (New York: Facts on File, 2005).Google Scholar
Sewell, Richard H. Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States 1837–1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).Google Scholar
Smith, Rogers. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).Google Scholar
Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Steinfeld, Robert J. The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Thatcher, Joseph. The Library of Original Sources (New York and Chicago: University Research Extension, 1907).Google Scholar
Tiffany, Joel. A Treatise on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery, together with the Powers and Duties of the Federal Government in Relation to That Subject (Cleveland: D. J. Calyerk, 1849).Google Scholar
Tomlins, Christopher L. Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Trefousse, Hans L. The Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s Vanguard for Racial Justice (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968).Google Scholar
Tsesis, Alexander. ed. Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tsesis, Alexander. The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History (New York: NYU Press, 2004).Google Scholar
Tuchinsky, Adam. Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune: Civil War Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiecek, William M. The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760–1848 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977).Google Scholar
Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).Google Scholar
Zietlow, Rebecca E. Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights (New York: NYU Press, 2006).Google Scholar
A Bill to Designate the United States Courthouse located at 1716 Spielbusch Avenue in Toledo, Ohio as the “James M. Ashley and Thomas W. L. Ashley United States Courthouse”; H.R. 3712, P.L. 110–284 (July 23, 2008)Google Scholar
Anti-Peonage Act, March 2, 1867, ch. 187, 14 Stat. 546, now codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §1581 et seq. and 42 U.S.C. §1994Google Scholar
Civil Rights Act of 1866, ch. 31, 14 Stat. 27 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §§1981–1983 (2000)Google Scholar
Civil Rights Act of 1870, ch. 114, §16, 16 Stat. 140, 144 (1869–1871)Google Scholar
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, ch. 7, 1 Stat. 302 (repealed 1864)Google Scholar
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104–193, 110 Stat. 2105 (1996) (codified at 42 U.S.C. §§601–619 (2006))CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance, SMC 14.22 (effective July 1, 2017)Google Scholar
Social Security Act of 1935, 42 U.S.C. §§401–406Google Scholar
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106–386, §102(b)(22), 114, Stat. 1464Google Scholar
Jones v. Alfred Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968)Google Scholar
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle District No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007)Google Scholar
Pollock v. Williams, 322 U.S. 4 (1944)Google Scholar
Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U.S. 275 (1897)Google Scholar
Slaughter House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873)Google Scholar
United States v. Driscoll, 96 U.S. 421 (1877)Google Scholar
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886)Google Scholar