Freedom's promise ex-slave families and citizenship in the age of Emancipation / [electronic resource] :
Elizabeth Regosin.
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
- xi, 239 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States. Liberty--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century. African American families--History--19th century. Freedmen--Social conditions.--United States Freedmen--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States. Citizenship--History--United States--19th century.