From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861--1862
(Part of the Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series)
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Most historians accept the proposition that in the first two years of the Civil War the North's primary aim was to reestablish the Union and the Constitution, not to emancipate slaves. But when northerners began clamoring for the confiscation of southern land and slaves as a punitive, military, and revenue-raising tactic, the constitutional right to personal property, particularly human property, came into question. In From Property to Person, Silvana...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807130427
ISBN13:9780807130421
Release Date:March 2005
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
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