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The Schweitzer family immigrated from Switzerland to West Virginia during or before 1755.
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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This volume's essays reveal that the abolitionists' impact on United States law and the Constitution did not end with the Civil War. The immediate postwar Reconstruction amendments were both rooted in the radically anti-positivistic, natural rights philosophy long espoused by the radical political abolitionists. Implementing protection for black civil rights, however, proved much more difficult.