History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-Seventh And Thirty-Eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-64
Slaves used for insurrectionary purposes made free -- Fugitive slaves not to be returned by persons in the Army -- The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia -- The President's proposition to aid states in the abolishment of slavery -- The prohibition of slavery in the territories -- Certain slaves to be made free -- Haiti and Liberia -- Education of colored youth in the District of Colombia -- The African slave-trade -- Additional act to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia --
...Colored soldiers -- Aid to the states to emancipate their slaves -- Amendment to the Constitution -- Repeal of fugitive-slave laws -- Pay of colored soldiers -- To make free the wives and children of colored soldiers -- A Bureau of Freedmen -- Reconstruction of rebel states -- Confinement of colored persons in the Washington jail -- Negro testimony -- The coastwise slave-trade -- Color no disqualification for carrying the mails -- No exclusion from the cars on account of color [2] p. of the publisher's advertisements at end Book, cloth 18
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