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Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War

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  1. Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War / [edited by] Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland.
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  1. New York, New York : The New Press, [1992]
  2. ©1992

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Additional authors
  1. Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018
  2. Fields, Barbara Jeanne
  3. Miller, Steven F.
  4. Reidy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1948-
  5. Rowland, Leslie S.
Description
  1. xxxiii, 571 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Gathers first hand accounts of slavery and the efforts of Black Americans to transform the Civil War into a war to end slavery.
Subject
  1. United States
  2. African Americans
  3. Slaves > Emancipation
  4. History
  5. African Americans > History > Sources > To 1863
  6. Negers
  7. USA
  8. Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
  9. Sources
  10. American Civil War (1861-1865)
  11. Emancipatie
  12. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans > Sources
  13. Sklaverei
  14. Slavernij
  15. Amerikaanse burgeroorlog
  16. To 1877
  17. African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Sources
  18. Abschaffung
  19. United States > History > African Americans > Sources > Civil War, 1861-1865
  20. African Americans > History > Sources > 1863-1877
  21. Slaves > Emancipation > History > Sources > United States
  22. Slaves > Emancipation > United States > History > Sources
  23. African Americans > History > To 1863 > Sources
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Sources.
Contents
  1. Ch. I.A War for the Union -- Ch. II. A War for Freedom -- Ch. III. Life and Labor within Union Lines -- Ch. IV. Free Labor in the Midst of War -- Ch. V. Slavery within the Union -- Ch. VI. Soldiers and Citizens.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.