R G Morse

Official Register of the United States

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1884
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers

• Author(s): United States. Bureau of Education

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1894
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Third Session of the Fifty-Third Congress

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1895
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report

• Author(s): United States. Office of Education

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1896
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Voices of Emancipation

• Author(s): Elizabeth A Regosin, Donald R Shaffer

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2008-05-24
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• Publisher: NYU Press

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, occurring decades before better-known WPA Slave Narratives of the 1930s took place. Voices of Emancip...