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Voices of emancipation : understanding slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau files / edited by Elizabeth A. Regosin and Donald R. Shaffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--1863-1877--Sources.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century--Sources.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--Sources.
- Enslaved persons.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Sources.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- African American soldiers--Pensions.
- African American soldiers.
- African American sailors--Pensions.
- African American sailors.
- United States--Armed Forces--African Americans--History--19th century--Sources.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans--Sources.
- United States. Pension Bureau--Records and correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau, which administered a huge pension system for Union veterans and their survivors in the decades following the Civil War. The files contain an invaluable, first-hand perspective of slavery, emancipation, black military service, and freedom. Moreover, as Pension Bureau examiners began interviewing black Union veterans and their families shortly after the Civil War, the files are arguably among the earliest sources of ex-slaves reflecting on their lives, o
- Contents:
- Slavery and emancipation
- The Civil War
- Postwar patterns
- Marriage and family
- Appendix : complete sample documents.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814777343
- 0814777341
- 9780814776261
- 0814776264
- OCLC:
- 828303776
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