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one of a g group of laws that controlled every aspect of enslaved African americans.
It was a slave state but by 1860 less then 10 percent of all the African Americans in Delaware were still enslaved. Delaware had only a few slaveholders and they did not control the state government and economy as in the south. Delaware is often grouped with the free states for this reason.
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The law allowed for enemy property to be confiscated. Since the South considered slaves chattels (personal property), Butler took advantage of the loophole to free the slaves in Southern territory under Union control.
Turner's rebellion demonstrated to the North the level of anger held by the enslaved, as well as the lengths freedom seekers were prepared to go for liberty. Southerners, meanwhile, saw their own vulnerability in the most shocking way possible. Southerners, then, asserted more control over the enslaved by further restricting African American gatherings and travel. A feeling of paranoia and fear descended over Southern slaveholders as never before.