Twenty Negro Law
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twenty-negro-law-309-8984646
title:
Twenty Negro Law
text:
The "Twenty Negro Law", also known as the "Twenty Slave Law" and the "Twenty Nigger Law", 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. Passed as part of the Second Conscription Act in 1862, the law was a re
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American Civil War Confederate legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Negro_Law
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2023-08-24T06:31:08Z
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