Confederate Forced Slave Mobilization and Receipt of Slave Impressment During the Final Year of the Civil War, Florida, 1864
[Civil War] [African American Military] [Slavery] Unknown official. Slave impressment receipt and certificate, 1865 documents the Confederate government’s forced mobilization of enslaved labor during the final phase of the Civil War under legislation authorizing the use of enslaved people for military purposes. Issued in Florida under the February 17, 1864.....