Voices of emancipation : understanding slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau files /

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.

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Publisher's description: 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 fi...

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Other Authors: Regosin, Elizabeth Ann, Shaffer, Donald Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
United States. > Pension Bureau > Records and correspondence.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Sources.
African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Sources.
African American soldiers > Pensions.
African American sailors > Pensions.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans > Sources.

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Call Number: E185.2 .V65 2008
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