Category Archives: Congressional Bills

A bill concerning slavery in the District of Columbia., 1830

A bill to disapprove and declare null and void all territorial acts and parts of acts heretofore passed by the legislative assembly of New Mexico which establish, protect, or legalize involuntary servitude or slavery within said Territory, except as punishment for crime upon due conviction., 1860

A bill to provide for taking the sense of the people of the several States on certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States., 1861

A bill to provide for taking the sense of the people of the several States on certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States., 1861

A bill to facilitate the suppression of the rebellion and prevent its return, and that the President be requested to declare free, and to direct all our generals and officers in command to order freedom to, all enslaved persons who shall leave their masters, or shall aid in quelling this rebellion., 1861

A bill to render freedom national and slavery sectional. To secure freedom to all persons within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government., 1862

An act giving aid to the State of Missouri for the purpose of securing the abolishment of slavery in said State., 1863

A bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia., 1862

A bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia., 1862

A bill to suppress the slaveholders’ rebellion., 1861

A bill to relieve the national government of all obligation to support slavery and of all responsibility for it under the Constitution., 1862

A bill for the confiscation of the property of rebels, and giving freedom to the persons they hold in slavery., 1861

An act to establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs, 1864

A bill to repeal the fugitive slave act of 1850, and all acts and parts of acts for the rendition of fugitive enslaved persons, 1864

An Act To establish, in the War Department, a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees., 1865

A bill to abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States., 1864

A bill to provide for the renting of abandoned lands, tenements, and houses in insurrectionary States, and for the care and employment of persons therein set free by proclamation of the President., 1864

A bill to repeal all acts for the rendition of fugitives from service or labor., 1864

A bill to aid the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President on the First day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three., 1864

A bill to prohibit commerce in enslaved persons among the several States, and the holding or transportation of human beings as property in any vessel within the jurisdiction of the national government., 1864

A bill to establish a bureau of freedmen., 1864

A Bill To incorporate the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company., 1865

A bill to establish a Bureau of Emancipation, 1864

A bill to secure equality before the law in the courts of the United States. That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color., 1864

A bill to double the pensions of those who were made pensioners by the casualties of the late war; to pay the damages done to loyal men by the rebel government and rebel raiders; and enforce the confiscation laws, so as to pay the same out of the confiscated property of the enemy., 1865

A bill to maintain and enforce the freedom of the inhabitants of the United States., 1865

A bill supplying appropriate legislation to enforce the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting slavery., 1865