Dynamics of Emancipation

• Who liberated whom?

“The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time; but the ‘inexorable logic of events’ will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery.” -- Frederick

• “Contraband of war”

• Congressional actions against slavery

  • First Confiscation Act (Aug. 1861)
  • Abolition in Washington, D.C. (April 1862)
  • Second Confiscation Act (July 1862)

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