Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
CONFEDERATE LAWS (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [VIRGINIA.] Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Called Session 1863 [bound with] Acts passed at session of 1863-4. [iii], 4-57; [iii], 4-107 pages. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards with printed spine label, lightly faded. Richmond, 1863-1864
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Includes several pages of acts relative to slaves working on fortifications, liabilities for same and the manner of payment for the loss of slaves. Also includes a series of acts to authorize the sale of slave convicts who were condemned to death and "an act to provide for the punishment of Free Negro convicts in certain cases." A Section at the end of the volume titled "Resolutions" prints an address to the soldiers of Virginia, filled with patriotic zeal and harsh words for the Union: "Refined and virtuous women have been brutally insulted and manacled by rude unfeeling soldiery, have been led captive from their homes as hostages for Negroes." Crandall, 2276.