The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America

Authors

Sally Hadden

ISBN

9780700620081

Price

$39.95

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Abstract

Competing State and Federal Jurisdictions in the Antebellum South

In this study of the Passenger Cases (1848-1849), Tony Freyer has written a long-needed work of a poorly understood set of Supreme Court decisions from the antebellum period, suits that reveal much about growing sectional te....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.17.1.15

Recommended Citation

Hadden, Sally (2015) "The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 17 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.17.1.15
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol17/iss1/14