African American History: American Civil War Era II
For Owner's forfeiture of the claims to the slaves of labor on ground that these slaves engaged in hostile military services against the Union , he forfeited his rights to ownership of those slaves . According to the Congressional Act , it said , "...All property including slaves used in support of thexRebellion is made subject to prize and capture ..." What was this Act that transformed the slaves into contraband?
First Confiscation Act of 1861
The critical and historical landmark in the chapter of the American Civil War Era. This site was the U.S. Union fortress within the vicinity of Charleston Harbor of South Carolina. It garrisoned a marginalized rank and file of Union Officers and Infantry soldiers of less than 100. Such Militia was vulnerable to the Confederate siege. CSA seized the Federal Arsenal and emasculated the resolve of the Federal government dominion over the fort. Lincoln executed his declarative edict to the CSA anent 2 factors : the Presidential protection of the federal government property and the Union preservation. Following the Confederacy's fusillade of cannon fire on 12 April 1861 , Lincoln responded by declaring the South in a state of Rebellion on 15 April 1861. He mobilized the nation toward military enlistment of volunteers. Identify this Fort .
Fort Sumter
An Anti-Slavery Orator & Abolitionist. He was a field hand slave , a hireling slave, and a trained caulker. He fled Slavery as a fugitive in 1838 . Under the tutelage of William Lloyd Garrison, he rose to become an eloquent Orator against the tyrannical regime of Colonial Slavery. He circulated his own lithographic editorial newspaper 📰, the North Star. He assumed the role as the Underground Railroad station master during Slavery. He lent a helping hand to the horde of fugitives. Furthermore, he brokered the creation of the All Black 54th & 55th Regiments at the sawn of the American Civil War. His triologies include , " Narrative of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave ; My Bondage and My Freedom ; and Life and Times of ____?____. Who was this accomplished man ?
Frederick Douglass ( 1818 - 1895 )
Congress passed additional law protecting the fleeing slaves from being subjected to the restitution to the disloyal owners , "...that no slave
escaping from one state into another will be delivered up except for a crime , unless he belongs to a loyal owner..." and "...free disloyal owners' slaves who come into the Union lines .." What was the classifiable term for fleeing slaves ?
Fugitive
On 09 May 1862 , this General entered an Emancipatory Declaration 📜 , "...free all slaves in South Carolina, Georgia , & Florida..." President Abraham Lincoln interjected and countermanded it by commencing his nullification of the General Emancipation edict . Moreover , the President cited thatcthe General's action contradicted the Confiscation Act of 1861.
General David Hunter
This General invoked the Martial Law on 30 August 1861 declared free of all slaves of disloyal owners in the State of Missouri. President Abraham Lincoln twice adjured for him to emend and modify the order , "... so as NOT to exceed Congressional laws respecting Emancipation..." ( Provenance: Slavery in America ) . These Missourian slaves remained then unemancipated. Who was this General ?
General John C. Fremont
The Border States, unlike the Secessionist Deep South , had a Pro Union sentiment . They had marginalized population of both genre : African American slaves and slaveholders. These states did NOT hold state convention to vote for Secession Ordinance. Some declared Neutrality while remaing loyalty to the Union . This translated as no availability of the key resources : soldier supply to the Confederacy. Among these Border States were Delaware , Maryland , West Virginia , and Missouri. Identify the other missing Border State .
Kentucky's Declaration of Neutrality & Pro Union Sentiment
Post- March Secessionist states: 4 more States seceded from the Union AFTER thexswearing in ceremony of Abraham Lincoln beginning with Virginia, Arkansas , and Tennessee joined the bandwagon . Identify the final Secessionist State of the Deep South.
North Carolina
The U.S.Navy comenced occupancy of this Southern region in November 1861 . There was the White flight by the Majority to Maryland. Over 10,000 slaves were forsaken by the Slave masters. The military sacked the Slave owners' houses , destroyed the cotton gins , and permitted the ex slaves to plant subsistence crops . This was the advent of the Sea Island Experiment .
Port Royal , South Carolina
During the American Civil War , this Slave and his kith & kin aboard and stowaway the Plantar , the Confederate gunboats. He masquerade as a ship captain . Surreptitiously , he bypassed Fort Sumter and navigated the vessel out of Charleston Harbor to be delivered up to the Union. Given his act of Patriotism , he rose and served the constituents as a South Carolina State Legislature and as a 1 term Congressman .
Robert Small
One ofcthe American Colonies launched the legal institution of Slavery in 1682 . Which State was it ?
South Carolina
As of September 1861, this Military Branch launched the enlistment of African American Soldiers. The priori Black men served in non-combatant duty as orderliness and cook.
U.S. Navy
The Secessionist Movement began with South Carolina's defiant action on 20 December 1860 . What last 2 and final States , respectively , seceded from the Union on 07 May & 20 May 1861 ?
Tennessee & North Carolina
The Second Military Act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on 17 July 1862 . Its Statutory provision called for and evoked the Emancipation of all slaves of seditious and treasonous owners . Any Owner who engaged in Rebellion against the Union automatically forfeited his property including Chattel slave ownership . The slaves were , "...forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves..."
Second Confiscation Act of 1862
Secessionist Movement : In the wake of failed Crittenden proposed Constitutional amendments, South Carolina had already seceded from the Union on 20 December 1860 and drafted its Secession Ordinance. Mississippi. Alabama , and Florida seceded before 16 January 1861 . , the very date when the Radical Republicans squashed the Crittenden's Legislative measures. Respectively , Georgia and Louisiana seceded on 19 & 20 of January 1861 . What other State commenced Secession BEFORE Abraham Lincoln's sworn in inauguration as the q6th President of the United States?
Texas on 01 February 1861
Among these affiliates with the Confederate States of America, they all joined in alliance toward a common cause: preservation of Racial Slavery & White Supremacy. They protested one of Crittenden Compromise measures: its restriction of slaveholders' transit of African as human chattel North of 36°30`bifurcation line. Only 7 were founders of this Confederate union . Which Southern states came AFTER its formalized creation ? South Carolina ( 20 December 1860 ) , Mississippi, Florida , & Alabama ( pre- 16 January 1861 ) , Georgia ( 19 January 1861 ) ; Louisiana ( 20 January 1861 ) ; Texas ( 01 February 1861 ) ; Virginia ( 01 April 1861 ) ; Arkansas ( 06 May 1861 ) ; Tennessee ( 07 May 1861 ) & North Carolina ( 20 May 1861 ) .
Virginia , Arkansas , Tennessee , & North Carolina