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200 00$aVoices of emancipation$b[electronic resource] $eunderstanding slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau files /$fedited by Elizabeth A. Regosin and Donald R. Shaffer
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (230 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.
327   $aSlavery and emancipation -- The Civil War -- Postwar patterns -- Marriage and family -- Appendix : complete sample documents.
330   $aVoices 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
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