Amendment to Senate bill (S. 129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and so to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the country - American History 1493-1945

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC08979.07
From Archive Folder	Confederate acts and resolutions
Title	Amendment to Senate bill (S. 129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and so to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the country
Date	12 December 1864
Document Type	Military document
Content Description	Minor amendments to a Confederate act concerning the use of slaves or free negroes during the Civil War.
Subjects	Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Law Freemen African American Troops African American History Slavery Labor Fortification
Place written	Richmond, Virginia
Theme	The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945