The Civil War Confiscation Acts: Failing to Reconstruct the South
(Part of the Reconstructing America Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0823224902
ISBN13:9780823224906
Release Date:September 2011
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
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