Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

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. 141 (1863-1865)

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

Declaring the objects of the war and the purposes of the President in regard to slavery, enjoining obedience to certain acts of Congress and announcing the President’s intention to recommend compensation to loyal persons for the loss of slaves. September 22, 1862

Declaring the objects of the war and the purposes of the President in regard to slavery, enjoining obedience to certain acts of Congress and announcing the President’s intention to recommend compensation to loyal persons for the loss of enslaved persons. September 22, 1862, 1862

36 H.R. 957 (1859-1861)

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

36 S. 537 (1859-1861)

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

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the twenty-fifth of last month, requesting to be furnished with such information as may be possessed by the executive, touching the execution of so much of the first article of the late treaty of peace and amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States, as relates to the restitution of slaves and which has not heretofore been communicated.

Presidential message transmitting information respecting restitution of enslaved persons, 1818