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From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861–1862. By Silvana R. Siddali. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xii, 298 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-3042-7.)
From Property to Person, by Silvana R. Siddali, is one of the few close examinations of Federal confiscation legislation during the Civil War. For this reason alone, it is of scholarly interest. Though the laws called for sweeping expropriation of Confederates' slaves and property, the author contends they were "complicated, vague, and so softened" by congressional committees that they were "nearly useless" in practice (p. 6). Democrats and moderate Republicans insisted on due process protections and individual trials. This the author characterizes as a "retreat from tyrannical measures," which well captures both the argument and the solicitude for property rights evident throughout the work (p. 250). . . .
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