| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Canada and the United States

Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie. The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2003. Pp. xiv, 295. $34.95.

Justice Felix Frankfurter has observed that Supreme Court decisions present "windows on the world" (p. 244). The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) strikingly illustrates the accuracy of Frankfurter's comment. Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie's book explores the Court's precedent-setting construction of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment within the context of New Orleans' efforts to implement effective public health and sanitation regulation of the slaughtering business amid racially charged and corruption-ridden political confrontations during Louisiana's Republican Reconstruction. Like contemporaries, some historians emphasized the legitimacy of the public health issues against the record of political perfidy. Others focused on the restrictive interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause, which gutted federal protection of individual rights and enabled the South's suppression of the rights of African Americans. Labbé and Lurie contribute useful insight to each of these perspectives.

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