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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454392503321

Titolo

Voices of emancipation [[electronic resource] ] : understanding slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau files / / edited by Elizabeth A. Regosin and Donald R. Shaffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8147-7734-1

0-8147-7626-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RegosinElizabeth Ann

ShafferDonald Robert

Disciplina

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - History - 1863-1877

African Americans - Social conditions - 19th century

Slavery - United States - History - 19th century

Slaves - Emancipation - United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

African American soldiers - Pensions

African American sailors - Pensions

Electronic books.

United States Armed Forces African Americans History 19th century Sources

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Slavery and emancipation -- The Civil War -- Postwar patterns -- Marriage and family -- Appendix : complete sample documents.

Sommario/riassunto

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