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Author : James Garfield Randall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : UCAL:B4517938
Author : J G 1881-1953 Randall
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347171029
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Author : J. G. (James Garfield) 1881-19 Randall
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1363469622
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Daniel W. Hamilton
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781459606241
Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about this drastic shift in legal and political thoug...
Author : James Garfield Randall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 133131108X
Excerpt from The Confiscation of Property During the Civil War: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature; In Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History This monograph is intended to present the results and conclusions of an investigation of the federal policy of confiscation during the Civil War, undertaken as a doctoral dissertation for the Department of History in the University of Chicago. Though the nature of such a study is sufficiently clear without introductory comments, and though its importance may not justify an extended preface, yet a word of explanation may perhaps be in order as to the choice of subject matter and the method pursued in this short volume. The writer has, for the purpose of unity of treatment, excluded various topics which are plainly related to the subject of confiscation during the Civil War. The important, though undeveloped, subject of rebel sequestration, for instance, has been referred to only incidentally as throwing light on the motives for the Union measures of forfeiture. A unique class of "property," namely slaves, is excluded from consideration here, because the study of this topic constitutes a substantial problem in itself, and its connection with the policy of general confiscation was only incidental. Mere military seizures, pursued in accordance with the general army instructions from Washington, fall outside the scope of the present study, as do also forfeiture for violation of the non-intercourse acts, seizures for evasion of the internal revenue, and the capture and disposition of maritime prizes. These omissions have been necessary in order to preserve the minuteness of subject matter appropriate to monograph treatment. The method of presentation pursued throughout the study is to classify the data regarding seizures under general heads according to the principal kinds of situations in which property might be placed, and to present the main problems or lines of policy which the government followed in taking, trying, and restoring property, rather than to explore the details of individual cases, though considerable material of this sort is in the writer's possession derived from the original court records. More space has intentionally been given to the constitutional and legal phases of the subject, than to economic and social considerations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Silvana R. Siddali
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807130427
Most historians accept the proposition that in the first two years of the Civil War the North's primary aim was to reestablish the Union and the Constitution, not to emancipate slaves. But when northerners began clamoring for the confiscation of southern land and slaves as a punitive, military, and revenue-raising tactic, the constitutional right to personal property, particularly human property, came into question. In From Property to Person, Silvana R. Siddali traces the resulting discourse among northern voters, politicians, military leaders, and President Lincoln, elucidating how emancipation ultimately became an essential political cause in the North. After the outbreak of civil war, many northern citizens demanded that slaves be seized as contraband without necessarily endorsing their emancipation. Siddali examines the public and political debates in the North over southerners' private property rights and explains how these deliberations set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights. Fundamental questions arose: Who had the right to control the war effort? What were the rights of rebellious citizens in a democratic Republic? How did one define human bondage that is implicitly protected in the nation's founding documents? Would the destruction of slavery irreparably damage the Constitution? Through the two Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862, the author argues, Americans worked out a conundrum between property rights and constitutionally protected civil liberties. The right of all human beings to freedom now trumped white southerners' right to human property. In a rich analysis of editorials, pamphlets, letters, and congressional speeches, From Property to Person reveals the swift transformation in rhetoric concerning the Constitution and its protection of private property rights. The Confiscation Acts paved the way for the Reconstruction Amendments by fostering support for a broader reach by the federal government into private property rights and envisioning a new interpretation of an individual citizen's rights and obligations.
Author : John Syrett
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0823224899
The Confiscation Acts were designed to sanction slave holding states by authorizing the Federal Government to seize rebel properties and grant freedom to slaves who fought with or worked for the Confederate military. In the first full account in more than twenty years of them, 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.
Author : Rufus Waples
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015036764945
Author : William Henry Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050950864
Author : Thomas B. Allen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062010803
An “evocatively written examination” of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution (American Spectator). The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and even in church. In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of the Tories, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.
Author : William Alan Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469614052
With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Author : Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139272
One of the lesser-known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From the beginning of the war, many African American refugees sought avenues of escape to the North. Due to their sheer numbers, those who reached Union forces presented a problem for the military. Fortunately, the First Confiscation Act of 1861 permitted the seizure of property used in support of the South's war effort, including slaves. Eventually regarded as contraband of war, the runaways became known as contrabands. In Bluejackets and Contrabands, Barbara Brooks Tomblin examines the relationship between the Union Navy and the contrabands. The navy established colonies for the former slaves, and, in return, some contrabands served as crewmen on navy ships and gunboats and as river pilots, spies, and guides. Tomblin presents a rare picture of the contrabands and casts light on the vital contributions of African Americans to the Union Navy and the Union cause.
Author : Burrus Carnahan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813172736
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would “have no lawful right” to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the act, Lincoln pointed to the international laws and usages of war as the legal basis for his Proclamation, asserting that the Constitution invested the president “with the law of war in time of war.” As the Civil War intensified, the Lincoln administration slowly and reluctantly accorded full belligerent rights to the Confederacy under the law of war. This included designating a prisoner of war status for captives, honoring flags of truce, and negotiating formal agreements for the exchange of prisoners—practices that laid the intellectual foundations for emancipation. Once the United States allowed Confederates all the privileges of belligerents under international law, it followed that they should also suffer the disadvantages, including trial by military courts, seizure of property, and eventually the emancipation of slaves. Even after the Lincoln administration decided to apply the law of war, it was unclear whether state and federal courts would agree. After careful analysis, author Burrus M. Carnahan concludes that if the courts had decided that the proclamation was not justified, the result would have been the personal legal liability of thousands of Union officers to aggrieved slave owners. This argument offers further support to the notion that Lincoln’s delay in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was an exercise of political prudence, not a personal reluctance to free the slaves. In Act of Justice, Carnahan contends that Lincoln was no reluctant emancipator; he wrote a truly radical document that treated Confederate slaves as an oppressed people rather than merely as enemy property. In this respect, Lincoln’s proclamation anticipated the psychological warfare tactics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Carnahan’s exploration of the president’s war powers illuminates the origins of early debates about war powers and the Constitution and their link to international law.
Author : James Oakes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089714
Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery. These two aims—"Liberty and Union, one and inseparable"—were intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war. By summer 1861 the federal government invoked military authority to begin freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines in the disloyal South. In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into gradual abolition with promises of compensation and the colonization abroad of freed blacks. James Oakes shows that Lincoln’s landmark 1863 proclamation marked neither the beginning nor the end of emancipation: it triggered a more aggressive phase of military emancipation, sending Union soldiers onto plantations to entice slaves away and enlist the men in the army. But slavery proved deeply entrenched, with slaveholders determined to re-enslave freedmen left behind the shifting Union lines. Lincoln feared that the war could end in Union victory with slavery still intact. The Thirteenth Amendment that so succinctly abolished slavery was no formality: it was the final act in a saga of immense war, social upheaval, and determined political leadership. Fresh and compelling, this magisterial history offers a new understanding of the death of slavery and the rebirth of a nation.
Author : Norman Bentwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Enemy property
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044421365
