Voices of Emancipation : Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files.

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, fir...

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