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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Regosin, Elizabeth A.
Otros Autores: Shaffer, Donald R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2008.
Temas:
United States. > Pension Bureau > Records and correspondence.
United States. > Pension Bureau
1800-1899
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.
Marins noirs américains > Pensions.
Militaires noirs américains > Pensions.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle > Sources.
Noirs américains > Histoire > 1863-1877 > Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans
African Americans > Social conditions
Armed Forces > African Americans
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans > Sources.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans > History > 19th century > Sources.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Noirs américains > Sources.
États-Unis > Forces armées > Noirs américains > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
United States
History
Records and correspondence
Sources
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:9780814777343
0814777341

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