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- Title
The Confederate Sequestration Act.
- Authors
Hamilton, Daniel W.
- Abstract
This article reports on the passage of the Sequestration Act by the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War in 1861. The law authorizes the seizure of Northern property in direct retaliation for the First Confiscation Act. In the South there was near ideological consensus on the legal basis for seizing Union property. Through the resort to international law, the Confederacy was able to assert its sovereignty and craft a law more quickly than its Northern counterpart.
- Subjects
CONFEDERATE States of America; CONFISCATIONS; ENEMY property; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; WAR (International law); INTERNATIONAL law; SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
Civil War History, 2006, Vol 52, Issue 4, p373
- ISSN
0009-8078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cwh.2006.0078