The Civil War Confiscation Acts

Failing to Reconstruct the South

John Syrett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2011
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-2490-6 (ISBN)

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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 objected to the Acts for fear they might push border states, particularly Missouri and Kentucky, into secession. The Acts were eventually rendered moot by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. John Syrett examines the political contexts of the Acts, especially the debates in Congress, and demonstrates how the failure of the confiscation acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction after the war.

John Syrett was Professor of History Emeritus at Trent University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2011
Reihe/Serie	Reconstructing America
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8232-2490-2 / 0823224902
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-2490-6 / 9780823224906
Zustand	Neuware