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- Confiscation_Acts comment "The Confiscation Acts were laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South.The Confiscation Act of 1861 authorized the confiscation of any Confederate property by Union forces (\"property\" included slaves). This meant that all slaves that fought or worked for the Confederate military were confiscated whenever court proceedings \"condemned\" them as property used to support the rebellion.".