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CSPAN3 June 24, 2012



confiscation act, which we now know is really what begins and immediately sfins to accelerate the engines of emancipation. until last year, the significance of the first confiscation act was down played by historians. there s a truly, i think, dazzling book by adam goodhart called 1861. and the high point, climax is the importance of the first confiscation act. what does it say? as i mentioned, it enables union officers to confiscate slaves who have reached union lines. now, their legal status is vague and in limbo. doesn t legally or technically free them but it means they re no longer slaves. and that confiscation act immediately is sent through the grapevine tell dpraf, and almost from that day i mean african-americans are making a beeline for union lines because they know they re going to be protegtded. transformation is truly extraordinary in the wake of this first confiscation act. and then in august of 1861, still very early. only four months into the war, ....

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CSPAN2 Today In Washington January 17, 2012



former slaves who were peacekeeping to the north what they were calling contraband and to support them so that they would not just be a burden on people but to provide housing and clothing and shelter and i think she writes a nice letter to lincoln in which she said look you have all of this money for soldiers and they are being well taken care of. send me some of that money and i m going to buy blankets and clothes for the contraband who don t have anything. and i think it really shows she was interested in a lot more than just the latest fashion of clothes or jewelry or something else but they are nice letters. i was just curious about how many letters do you have? is curious about how you choose which letter to going to the book to and i know there are some that are not available for the public eye yet. did you choose a because the was the most interesting were showed the best portrait of a president or just once you thought were the best to be published? the fir ....

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