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The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War./
Author:	Kleintop, Amanda Laury.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	258 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10928854
ISBN:	9780438551589

The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War.
Kleintop, Amanda Laury.

The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 258 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Until the Civil War, legal recognition of property rights in slaves enabled slaveholders, slave buyers and sellers, bankers, and investors to buy and sell slaves on credit and to mortgage slaves. The US government's wartime decision to abolish slavery without offering slaveowners compensation for the lost value of their slaves threatened to send this complex system of finance, founded on human property, into chaos. This dissertation explores the little-known history of white southerners' resistance to uncompensated emancipation and their defense of their perceived right to own slaves. Southern and federal lawmakers and judges, as well as everyday southerners, argued over who ought to be responsible for the financial burden of emancipation. From 1864 until 1866, former slaveowners regularly demanded that the federal government or state governments reimburse them for the value of their freed slaves. Others argued that no one should be forced to repay debts associated with the former value of slaves until 1871. The extent to which white southern men and women held onto the belief that they were entitled to be paid back reminds us that even after emancipation, property rights in slaves were ingrained in state law, politics, and southern culture. White southerners shed enough doubt on the legality of wartime emancipation with their claims for compensation that their opponents passed a section in the Fourteenth Amendment and turned to the US Supreme Court to undermine them. These debates reveal the ongoing contests over the meaning and terms of emancipation during and after the Civil War. White southerners accepted the abolition of slave labor with Confederate defeat in 1865 and they continued to press for favorable terms of emancipation after the war.

ISBN: 9780438551589Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Abolition

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