The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment?abridged Edition

by Jonathan Lurie and Ronald M. Labbé

Book Overview

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"