Stephen P. Halbrook

Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms Stephen P. Halbrook

Examines right to keep and bear arms and analyses the incorporation of the US Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment. Examining the history of the recognition of the right of freedmen to keep and bear arms in the period between 1866 and 1876, this comprehensive volume analyses the extent to which American political society was willing to secure the same civil rights to all.