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The Federal Collection preserves historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the U.S. federal government, including its institutions, jurisdictions, and contributions to the nation's history.

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Start date: 1866End date: 1868

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    §14, 14 Stat. 176 (1866)
    (General Publisher, 1868)
    Reaffirmed that freedmen were entited to “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty [and] personal security . . . including the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”
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    Freedmen's Bureau Act on July 16, 1866, §14
    (General Publisher, 1866)
    Declared that full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, security, acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, including the right to bear arms, shall be secured and enjoyed by all citizens.Without respect to race, color, or previous status as a slave.
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    Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., at 908-909
    (General Publisher, 1866)
    Decree by Generel D.E. Sickles pre-empting South Carolina's Black Codes: Guaranteed the constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed. Did not construe to sanction carrying concealed weapons, or the carrying of weapons by disorderly persons, vagrants, or disturbers of the peace.
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    Civil Rights Act of 1866 CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
    (General Publisher, 1866)
    Guaranteed "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens. Used by the Court to show language virtually identical to the Freedman's Bureau Act and covered the same rights.