The Forgotten Emancipator. James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction, Hardback

Zietlow uses the life of James Mitchell Ashley as a unique lens through which to explore the ideological origins of Reconstruction, the political antislavery movement, and the constitutional changes wrought in this era. For scholars of nineteenth-century history, as well as the history of American slavery, abolition, and emancipation.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Rebecca E. Zietlow
• Number of pages: 212
• Collection: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Publication date: 2017
• Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 20
• Cover type: Hardback