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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08668 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | General Order No. 16 to abolish the system of peonage in the Territory of New Mexico |
| Date | 12 March 1867 |
| Author | Townsend, Edward Davis (1817-1893) |
| Document Type | Government document; Legal document |
| Content Description | Transmits the act of Congress abolishing peonage in New Mexico "and other parts of the United States." States "that the holding of any person to service or labor under the system known as peonage is hereby declared to be unlawful, and the same is hereby abolished and forever prohibited in the Territory of New Mexico, or in any other Territory or State of the United States..." Issued by Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. |
| Subjects | Slavery Servant Indentured Servant American West Military Law Civil War Military History Union Forces Law Latin and South America |
| People | Townsend, Edward Davis (1817-1893) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |