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 "Twenty Negro Law", also known as the "Twenty Slave Law" and the "Twenty Nigger Law",[1] was a piece of legislation enacted by the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War. The law specifically exempted from Confederate military service one white man for every twenty slaves owned on a Confederate plantation, or for two or more plantations within five miles of each other that collectively had twenty or more slaves.[2] 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 barely three weeks earlier. The law addressed Confederate fears of a slave rebellion due to so many white men being absent from home, as they were fighting in the Confederate Army. The Confederacy enacted the first conscription laws in United States history,[3] and the percentage of Confederate soldiers who were conscripts was nearly double that of Union soldiers.
^Loewen, James W. (April 8, 2008). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: The New Press. pp. 224–226. ISBN 978-1-56584-100-0. OCLC 29877812. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
^Foner, Eric (December 13, 2011). Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. p. 15. ISBN 9780062035868. Retrieved March 2, 2016. [T]he Confederacy enacted the first conscription laws in American history...
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