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Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
Freedmen the Fourteenth Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms 18661876
Author: Stephen P. Halbrook
Whether newly-freed slaves could be trusted to own firearms was in great dispute in 1866, and the ramifications of this issue reverberate in today's "gun-control" debate. This is the only comprehensive study ever published on the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment and of Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to protect the r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780275963316
ISBN-10: 0275963314
Publication Date: 11/30/1998
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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