The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment Abridged Edition (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 backwaters. When Louisiana authorized a monopoly slaughterhouse to bring about sanitation reform, many independent butchers felt disenfranchised. Fr...
ISBN(s)
0700614095, 9780700614097
