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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate Amendment to Senate bill (S. 129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and so to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the country

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08979.07 Author/Creator: Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Printed document Date: 12 December 1864 Pagination: 2 p. ; 25 x 15.5 cm. Order a Copy

Minor ammendments to a Confederate act concerning the use of slaves or free negroes during the Civil War.

Confederate States of America, 1860-1870

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