Twenty Negro Law
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The "Twenty Negro Law", also known as the "Twenty Slave Law" and the "Twenty Nigger Law", was a piece of legislation enacted by the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War. The law specific
Exemption granted to Lycurgus Rees of Georgia in May 1864, pursuant to terms of the so-called "Twenty Negro Law." By the time this exemption was granted, the number of slaves necessary to qualify had been reduced from 20 to 15.
The Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865, unrecognized as a sovereign nation by either
Twenty Negro Law
…Confederate plantation, or for two or more plantations within five miles of each other that collectively had twenty or more slaves. Passed as part of the Second Conscription Act in 1862, the law was a reaction to United States President Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued just 19 days…
The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama
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Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee secessionist and Confederate Representative in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma