Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter one. Legislative Property Confiscation before the Civil War 14
6. Chapter two. Radical Property Confiscation in the Thirty-Seventh Congress 20
7. Chapter three. The Conservative Assault on Confiscation 41
8. Chapter four. The Moderate Coup 57
9. Chapter five. The Confederate Sequestration Act 82
10. Chapter six. The Ordeal of Sequestration 111
11. Chapter seven. Civil War Confiscation in the Reconstruction Supreme Court 140
12. Conclusion: The Limits of Sovereignty 169
13. Notes 173
14. Index 217