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Collection Reference Number GLC08979.02
From Archive Folder Confederate acts and resolutions 
Title An act to perpetuate testimony in cases of slaves abducted or Harbored by the Enemy, and other property seized, wasted, or destroyed by them
Date 30 August 1861
Document Type Military document
Content Description Confederate act concerning the official documenting of slaves and other private property taken by the Union. Listed as act number two hundred and seventy.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Confederate States of America  Law  Slavery  African American History  Contrabands  
Place written Richmond, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945