The Civil War Confiscation Acts
Failing to Reconstruct the South
This book is the first full account in more than 20 years of two significant, but relatively understudied, laws passed during the Civil War. The Confiscation Acts (1861-62) were designed to sanction slave holding states by authorizing the Federal Government to seize rebel properties (including land and other assets held in Northern and border states) and grant freedom to slaves who fought with or worked for the Confederate military. Abraham Lincoln objected to the Acts for fear they might push border states, particularly Missouri and Kentucky, into secession. The Acts were eventually rendered moot by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2490-6
- EAN: 9780823224906
- Produktnummer: 10727985
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.0 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
John Syrett was Professor of History Emeritus at Trent University.
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