District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act information
1862 U.S. federal law ending slavery in DC
District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
Long title
An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia
Enacted by
the 37th United States Congress
Effective
April 16, 1862; 162 years ago (1862-04-16)
Citations
Public law
37–50
Statutes at Large
12 Stat. 376
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 108 by Henry Wilson (R‑MA) on December 16, 1861
Committee consideration by the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
Passed the Senate on April 3, 1862 (29–14)
Passed the House on April 11, 1862 (92–39)
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on April 16, 1862
Major amendments
An Act Supplementary to the Act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States)37–127, 12 Stat. 538
An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, 37th Cong., Sess. 2, ch. 54, 12 Stat. 376, known colloquially as the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia, while providing slave owners who remained loyal to the United States in the then-ongoing Civil War to petition for compensation. Although not written by him,[1] the act was signed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 16, 1862. April 16 is now celebrated in the city as Emancipation Day.
^Guelzo 2009, p. 128
and 22 Related for: District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act information
the DistrictofColumbiaCompensatedEmancipationAct or simply CompensatedEmancipationAct, was a law that ended slavery in the DistrictofColumbia, while...
President Lincoln signed the DistrictofColumbiaCompensatedEmancipationAct. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders...
seceding states that Congress could pass in 1862 the DistrictofColumbiaCompensatedEmancipationAct. The Act provided partial compensation, up to $300 per...
Compensated EmancipationAct, an actofCompensatedemancipation, for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the DistrictofColumbia. The...
History of slavery in Alabama History of slavery in Arkansas DistrictofColumbiaCompensatedEmancipationAct History of slavery in Florida History of slavery...
Compensatedemancipation in the United States, sometimes reparations for slave owners, was the concept of paying slave owners for their slaves as a path...
Reminiscences of James Madison and helped plan what became known as the Pearl incident Abolitionism in the United States DistrictofColumbiaCompensated Emancipation...
The DistrictofColumbiaCompensatedEmancipationActof 1862 established an Emancipation Commission of three members to review petitions for compensation...
Slavery, and: Actof Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War, and: Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth...
Quartermaster General Meigs and David K. Cartter, a justice of the District Court for the DistrictofColumbia. Stanton found Lincoln at the Petersen House across...
Administration that the Comstock Act made mailing of abortifacients illegal, conflicting with a ruling by district court judge Thomas O. Rice in Washington...
nature of the conspiracy and the facts that the defendants acted as enemy combatants and that martial law was in force at the time in the Districtof Columbia...
has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Actof 1866 The Civil Rights Actof 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870)...
delegates came from 15 states and the DistrictofColumbia. They adopted the name "Radical Democracy Party". A supporter of Grant was appointed chairman. The...
Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by Emancipation. Voters could then...
Globalization and the Panics of 1873 (Columbia UP, 2018) online review Fawcett, W. L. (1877). Gold and Debt; An American Hand-Book of Finance. Chicago, S.C....
The Amnesty Actof 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the...
won, the condition of the slave could never be the same after this disaster of war." Du Bois' research shows that the post-emancipation South did not degenerate...
"The DistrictofColumbiaEmancipationAct". National Archives. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Finkelman and Miller, Macmillan Encyclopedia of World...
Global Information