"Sponsored by National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. The records ; The Freedmen and Southern Society Project -- Editorial method. Elements of documents -- Symbols and abbreviations. Editorial symbols ; Symbols used to describe manuscripts ; Abbreviations for record groups in the National Archives of the United States ; Short titles ; Military and other abbreviations -- Land and labor, 1865 -- The novel condition of freedom -- Overseeing freedom -- Coming to terms -- The land question -- Points of contention -- Dependency and relief -- Measures of independence -- Settling up -- Specters of insurrection -- Lesson learned.
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