How Formerly Enslaved People Reacted to Freedom in 1862
The Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina. Official Reports [cover title]. The Negroes at Port Royal, S. C., Report of the Government Agent [caption title]
Second Edition. The second (separate) edition of this important early report on a pilot project that helped determine federal policies to govern and assist the enslaved people who were freed during the Civil War. The Union army occupied the Port Royal area (a network of islands just north of the.....
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