@article{340220,
      author = {Regosin, Elizabeth Ann. and Shaffer, Donald Robert.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/340220},
      title = {Voices of emancipation : understanding slavery, the Civil  War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau  files /},
      publisher = {New York University Press,},
      abstract = {This book seeks to recover the lives and words of former  slaves in detail by mining the case files of the U.S.  Pension Bureau. These files contain first-hand perspective  of slavery, emancipation, black military service, and  freedom. It also explores the words of former slaves  topically from recollections of slavery to life after  emancipation.},
      recid = {340220},
      pages = {xi, 217 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2008},
}