Historians and the Extent of Slave Ownership in the Southern United States

Olsen, Otto H.

doi:10.1353/cwh.2004.0074

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“…12 De Bow (1860) This claim of Horowitz's is irrelevant to the case for transferring the illegally obtained property now in white hands that should be properly restituted to the grandchildren of the enslaved people who first homesteaded it. When we look at the data of the 1860 Census, we find the percentage of families who had slaves in the precise order of their succession from the Union (Olsen, 2004) If we are truly looking for justice for the crime of slavery, then we should repay the heirs of slaves to their estates, the land they were forced to work. This leaves immigrants and anyone else who had no hand in the enslavement of blacks out of the bill for repayment.…”

Section: There Is No Single Group That Benefited Exclusively From Sla...mentioning

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Amos

Block

2022

Međunar. stud. (Online)

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Horowitz rejects reparations for African Americans. We demonstrate that their heirs are entitled to the property illegitimately obtained by the slave owners. When we operate under the libertarian homesteading principle, the land should be redistributed back to the people who worked and tilled it first. That is, the black slaves. Horowitz’s claims against reparations serve as a poor refutation towards the reparations argument. African Americans are entitled to the “40 acres and a mule” that was promised, yet never fulfilled. We rely upon libertarian theory to clearly understand the case for reparations.

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Section: There Is No Single Group That Benefited Exclusively From Sla...mentioning

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Amos

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2022

Međunar. stud. (Online)

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Understanding the Desertion of South Carolinian Soldiers During the Final Years of the Confederacy

Doyle

2013

Hist. J.

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Although the American Civil War is perhaps the most written about event in American history, the issue of desertion has often retained a neglected position in the conflict's dense historiography. Those historians who have studied military absenteeism during the war have tended to emphasize socio-economic factors as motivating men to leave the army and return home. The Register of Confederate Deserters, a list of southern soldiers who crossed into Union lines and took an oath of loyalty in order to try and return home, can provide a different look at these men. By studying the South Carolinian men on the Register, as a case-study, we can see that ideological, as well as socio-economic, motivations occupied the thought process of Civil War deserters. Moreover, the act of desertion was rarely a simple representation of the thoughts of the individual but of the opinions and feelings of his family and community as well. As such, studying Confederate desertion not only helps us understand the issues of loyalty and nationalism during the Civil War, but also the way in which nineteenth-century southerners conceptualized the world around them.

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A Bibliography of Civil War Articles: 1972

Stoflet¹,

Rogers²

1973

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Historians and the Extent of Slave Ownership in the Southern United States

Cited by 7 publications

References 41 publications

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Understanding the Desertion of South Carolinian Soldiers During the Final Years of the Confederacy

A Bibliography of Civil War Articles: 1972

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