The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment?abridged Edition
(Part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series)
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, sought to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves; but its first important test did not arise until five years later. That test centered on a vitriolic dispute among the white butchers of mid-Reconstruction New Orleans. The rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century New Orleans was a sanitation nightmare, with the city's slaughterhouses dumping animal remains into local...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0700614095
ISBN13:9780700614097
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.5"
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