Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Tag Archives: emancipation

Is Slavery Dead

News article: On the effects of the Emancipation on slavery and the civil war, 1864

39 S. 6 (1865-1867)

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

37 H.R. 634 (1861-1863)

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

37 H.R. 106 (1861-1863)

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

39 S. 55 (1865-1867)

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

36 H.R. 64 (1859-1861)

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

37 S. 78 (1861-1863)

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

38 S. 123 (1863-1865)

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

38 S. 128 (1863-1865)

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

38 S. 159 (1863-1865)

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

38 S. 188 (1863-1865)

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