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Mark A. Weitz. The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861. (Landmark Law Cases and American Society.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xi, 219. Cloth $35.00, paper $15.95.

This book by Mark A. Weitz examines subjects long neglected by students of the American Civil War: Confederate sequestration and privateering. In August 1861, the Confederate Congress enacted a harsh and somewhat confusing sequestration statute that among other provisions empowered Confederate court-appointed receivers to force southern creditors and their lawyers to reveal debts owed to northerners, which, upon discovery, would be payable to the Confederate government. In the same year the Confederate government began granting letters of marque to southern privateers, authorizing them to capture northern ships. In the fall of 1861 three trials took place, one testing the constitutionality of the sequestration statute and two determining the validity of the letters of marque. Much of this study focuses on these trials.

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