The Civil War Confiscation Acts : Failing to Reconstruct the South /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Syrett, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Colección:Reconstructing America
Temas:
HISTORY / Military / United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The First Confiscation Act
  • 2 The Second Confiscation Act: The Act and Its Opponents
  • 3 The Second Act: Divided Republican Support and Flawed Result
  • 4 Enforcement of the Second Act: Lincoln and Bates
  • 5 Early Military Confiscation
  • 6 Rules of War and Later Military Confiscation
  • 7 The Treasury's Part in Confiscation
  • 8 The Politics of Confiscation
  • 9 Andrew Johnson and the End of Confiscation
  • 10 Confiscation and the Courts: Jurisdiction and Procedures
  • 11 Confiscation and the Courts: Constitutionality and Duration
  • 12 Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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