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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Slaughterhouse Cases Regulation Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, sought to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves; but its first important test - centered on a vitriolic dispute among the white butchers of mid-Reconstruction New Orleans - did not arise until five years later. This is a guide to one of the US Supreme Court's most famous cases.
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