What series of legislative acts enacted by Congress were enacted to liberate enslaved people captured by Confederate armies in the South?
Answer The Confiscation Acts
The Confiscation Acts were a series of federal legislative acts enacted during the American Civil War to liberate the enslaved people in secessionist states. The First Confiscation Act permitted the Union to seize rebel property. It specified that any enslaved people who served in or worked for the Confederate armed forces had to be released from future duties to their owners.
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