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Title 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.
Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, c2008.
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 West Oaks Genealogy  RG 973.0496 VOI    Lib Use Only
Description xi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.
Contents Slavery and emancipation -- The Civil War -- Postwar patterns -- Marriage and family -- Appendix : Complete sample documents.
Summary This book seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in detail by mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau. These files contain first-hand perspective of slavery, emancipation, black military service, and freedom. It also explores the words of former slaves topically from recollections of slavery to life after emancipation.
Subject African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 -- Sources.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- Sources.
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans -- Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Sources.
African American soldiers -- Pensions.
African American sailors -- Pensions.
United States. Pension Bureau -- Records and correspondence.
Abschaffung.
Veteran.
Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>
Sklaverei.
USA.
Schwarze.
ocls african american genealogy
Added Author Regosin, Elizabeth Ann.
Shaffer, Donald Robert.
ISBN 9780814775868 (cl : alk. paper)
0814775861 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814775875 (pk : alk. paper) : $23.00
081477587X (pk : alk. paper)
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