Voices of emancipation
Subtitle: understanding slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau files
By: edited by Elizabeth Regosin and Donald Shaffer.
Contributors: Regosin, Elizabeth Ann.; Shaffer, Donald Robert.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780814775868; 9780814775875
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; Slaves -- 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
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery and emancipation; title: The Civil War; title: Postwar patterns; title: Marriage and family; title: Appendix: Complete sample documents.