the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia, while...

President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders...

seceding states that Congress could pass in 1862 the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. The Act provided partial compensation, up to $300 per...

Compensated Emancipation Act, an act of Compensated emancipation, for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia. The...

1862, under the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. After his emancipation, he assisted Mills in installing the Statue of Freedom atop the...

practice remained legal in the district until after secession, with the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act signed by Lincoln on April 16...

History of slavery in Alabama History of slavery in Arkansas District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act History of slavery in Florida History of slavery...

Compensated emancipation in the United States, sometimes reparations for slave owners, was the concept of paying slave owners for their slaves as a path...

Reminiscences of James Madison and helped plan what became known as the Pearl incident Abolitionism in the United States District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation...

was able pass the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. President Lincoln advocated that slave owners be compensated for emancipated slaves...

with the passage of the April 16, 1862 District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act which freed thousands of slaves in that District. James M. Goode...

Union. On 16 April 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, abolishing slavery in Washington D. C. Meanwhile...

Slavery, and: Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War, and: Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth...

has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870)...

The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 established an Emancipation Commission of three members to review petitions for compensation...

1862 by the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. Except for the abolition of slavery by the unionist "Restored Government of Virginia" in...

large influx of freed slaves. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862, which ended slavery in the district, freeing about...

governments. He believed that Wade–Davis would jeopardize state-level emancipation movements in loyal border states like Missouri and, especially, Maryland...

Although the law for the District of Columbia (sect. 312 of the Federal Criminal Code) is similar to the federal Comstock Act (applying to the 50 states)...

won, the condition of the slave could never be the same after this disaster of war." Du Bois' research shows that the post-emancipation South did not degenerate...

The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the...

Quartermaster General Meigs and David K. Cartter, a justice of the District Court for the District of Columbia. Stanton found Lincoln at the Petersen House across...

was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation,...

delegates came from 15 states and the District of Columbia. They adopted the name "Radical Democracy Party". A supporter of Grant was appointed chairman. The...

nature of the conspiracy and the facts that the defendants acted as enemy combatants and that martial law was in force at the time in the District of Columbia...

western Indians anticipated the assimilationist program of the Dawes Act of 1887. At the end of his term, Hayes kept his pledge not to run for reelection...

Globalization and the Panics of 1873 (Columbia UP, 2018) online review Fawcett, W. L. (1877). Gold and Debt; An American Hand-Book of Finance. Chicago, S.C....

Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by Emancipation. Voters could then...

Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of silver...

"The District of Columbia Emancipation Act". National Archives. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Finkelman and Miller, Macmillan Encyclopedia of World...