Counting the costs of freedom : the fight over compensated emancipation after the Civil War / Amanda Laury Kleintop.
| Author/creator | Kleintop, Amanda author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Civil War America Civil War America (Series) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/83d166b4-c637-47ab-4d1c-4fd7b4e9f991 ^A325557 |
| Contents | The National and International Origins of Compensated Emancipation Schemes -- Wartime Emancipation Policies: Compensation and the Contested Status of Property in Persons -- Emancipation and Reunification: The Persistence of Arguments for Compensation after Confederate Surrender -- Writing Compensation out of the Constitution: The Making of Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Debt Relief and Repudiation: The Legal and Economic Consequences of Uncompensated Emancipation -- Writing Uncompensated Emancipation into the Lost Cause. |
| Abstract | "During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy's defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition's costs during Reconstruction. As Amanda Laury Kleintop shows, their persistence eventually led to the creation of Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which abolished the right to profit from property in people. Surprisingly, former Confederates responded by using Lost Cause history-making to obscure the fact that they had demanded financial redress in the first place. The largely successful efforts of white southerners to erase this history continues to generate false understandings today. Kleintop draws from an impressive array of archival sources to uncover this lost history. In doing so, she demonstrates how this legal battle also undermined efforts by formerly enslaved people to receive reparations for themselves and their descendants--a debate that persists in today's national dialogue"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781469688695 |
| LCCN | 2025013269 |
| ISBN | 9781469688640 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469688646 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469688657 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469688654 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000247748 |