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<blockquote data-quote="Junior Bonner" data-source="post: 2579790" data-attributes="member: 33416"><p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fencyclopediavirginia.org%2FTwenty-Slave_Law&ei=2KnOU5niA9SwyATR9IGoDQ&usg=AFQjCNH43eb4NzkApjhKcjI-dZfDDt3qmw&bvm=bv.71198958,d.aWw" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Twenty-Slave_Law&ei=2KnOU5niA9SwyATR9IGoDQ&usg=AFQjCNH43eb4NzkApjhKcjI-dZfDDt3qmw&bvm=bv.71198958,d.aWw</a></p><p></p><p>The Twenty-Slave Law, passed by the Confederate Congress on October 11, 1862, during the American Civil War (1861&#8211;1865), created an exemption to military conscription for the owners of twenty or more slaves. The law was controversial in much of the South, where it served to exacerbate certain social rifts and led to claims by drafted soldiers that they were fighting a "rich man's war."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Junior Bonner, post: 2579790, member: 33416"] [url]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fencyclopediavirginia.org%2FTwenty-Slave_Law&ei=2KnOU5niA9SwyATR9IGoDQ&usg=AFQjCNH43eb4NzkApjhKcjI-dZfDDt3qmw&bvm=bv.71198958,d.aWw[/url] The Twenty-Slave Law, passed by the Confederate Congress on October 11, 1862, during the American Civil War (1861–1865), created an exemption to military conscription for the owners of twenty or more slaves. The law was controversial in much of the South, where it served to exacerbate certain social rifts and led to claims by drafted soldiers that they were fighting a "rich man's war." [/QUOTE]
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