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Freedom : A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865
Overview
This collection of documents examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others--reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781469611082
- ISBN-10: 1469611082
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: June 2014
- Page Count: 1108
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