LAS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Emancipation Proclamation, Involuntary Servitude, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
27 Sep 2017
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April 1861: war begins and southern states secede. Later on: virginia, north carolina, arkansas and tennessee. West virginia admitted to union during the war on june 20, 1863. Important battle because it turned the tide for the union. Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction of 1864. Those who will be loyal to the us, if at least 10% of the population will be able to establish a local government and eventually join the. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction . Currently being abused by the prison industrial complex. Bureau of refugee, freedmen, and abandoned lands or freedman"s getting free/cheap labor. These freed slaves still were not considered citizens. 1960s is where you can clearly see the switch in the political parties. Lincoln"s replacement: johnson was a white supremacist.
