Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876

by Stephen P. Halbrook

Book Overview

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 right to keep and bear arms. Indeed, this is the most detailed study ever published about the intent of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275963314
• ISBN13: 9780275963316
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"