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From property to person : slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siddali, Silvana R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2005]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Confederate property seizures and the northern home front during the secession crisis
  • Privateers, debt repudiation, and the "contraband"
  • Congress debates the confiscation of rebel property in 1861
  • The first Confiscation Act and the emancipation of slaves
  • John C. Frémont and Simon Cameron attempt to emancipate slaves and punish rebels
  • The Second Confiscation Act debated in Congress
  • Slavery and the constitution
  • The northern public, slavery, and hard war
  • Southern land and slaves
  • War powers and confiscation
  • Conclusion : the passage and the failure of the Second Confiscation Act.