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

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

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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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Syrett, John,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2005
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Reconstructing America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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