| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Silvana R. Siddali. From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861–1862. (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 298. $44.95.

In detailing the origins and passage of the two Confiscation Acts of the Union Congress, Silvana R. Siddali has produced interpretations that alter or modify current understandings of Abraham Lincoln, congressional Republicans, the northern public, and northern Democrats. Her investigation is a careful scrutiny of congressmen, editorial opinions, and administration officials. She has unearthed much information that one would have thought would have long ago been revealed, but much of her research is surprisingly fresh. Political historians of the Civil War will find this a tantalizing and informative work.

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