001480146 000__ 05512nam\a22010695i\4500 001480146 001__ 1480146 001480146 003__ DE-B1597 001480146 005__ 20231026035127.0 001480146 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480146 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480146 008__ 230918t20082008nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480146 020__ $$a9780814777343 001480146 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814777343.001.0001$$2doi 001480146 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548432 001480146 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480146 0410_ $$aeng 001480146 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480146 050_4 $$aE185.2$$b.V65 2008 001480146 072_7 $$aHIS036050$$2bisacsh 001480146 08204 $$a973.0496073 001480146 24500 $$aVoices of Emancipation :$$bUnderstanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files /$$ced. by Elizabeth A. Regosin, Donald R. Shaffer. 001480146 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2008] 001480146 264_4 $$c©2008 001480146 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480146 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480146 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480146 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480146 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480146 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 Slavery and Emancipation -- $$t2 The Civil War -- $$t3 Postwar Patterns -- $$t4 Marriage and Family -- $$tAppendix: Complete Sample Documents -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Authors 001480146 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480146 520__ $$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, occurring decades before better-known WPA Slave Narratives of the 1930s took place.Voices of Emancipation explores the words of former slaves topically, beginning with recollections of slavery, moving on to experiences of military service in the Civil War, the transition to freedom, and finally to reflections on marriage and family before and after emancipation. With an introduction that places the pension files in context and presents the themes of the book, and historical commentary interwoven throughout the excerpts of the interviews themselves, Elizabeth A. Regosin and Donald R. 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