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Page 89
... slaves - and the president still insisted on this point in the very act of emancipating the slaves eighteen months later . Slaves were to be freed as a means towards the end of saving the Union , and , after all , several slave states ...
... slaves - and the president still insisted on this point in the very act of emancipating the slaves eighteen months later . Slaves were to be freed as a means towards the end of saving the Union , and , after all , several slave states ...
Page 327
... slaves when the voluntary system failed . In 1862 the state authorities took a hand , and when the Confederate government resorted to impressment of slaves in March 1863 it did so specifically according to the rules and regulations ...
... slaves when the voluntary system failed . In 1862 the state authorities took a hand , and when the Confederate government resorted to impressment of slaves in March 1863 it did so specifically according to the rules and regulations ...
Page 328
... slave codes were tightened in theory during the war , many slaves were in practice subject to less discipline than before , either because the only whites in the vicinity were old men , women and children , or because masters feared ...
... slave codes were tightened in theory during the war , many slaves were in practice subject to less discipline than before , either because the only whites in the vicinity were old men , women and children , or because masters feared ...
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