Publications of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

Series 1, volume 2, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South, ed. Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge University Press, 1993). 814 pp.  ISBN 0-521-41742-2.

Series 1, volume 3, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South, ed. Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, and Julie Saville (Cambridge University Press, 1990). 975 pp.   ISBN 0-521-41742-2.

Series 2, The Black Military Experience, ed. Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge University Press, 1982). 896 pp.  ISBN 0-521-22984-7.

Series 3, volume 1, Land and Labor, 1865, ed. Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2008), ca. 1058 pp.

Other Volumes

Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War, ed. Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland (The New Press, 1992). 571 pp.  Cloth ISBN 1-56584-015-1; paperback ISBN 1-56584-120-4.

Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era, ed. Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland (The New Press, 1997). 259 pp.  Cloth ISBN 1-56584-026-7; paperback ISBN 1-56584-440-8.

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War, ed. Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge University Press, 1998). 192 pp.  Cloth ISBN 0-521-63258-7; paperback ISBN 0-521-63449-0.

Articles in Scholarly Journals

Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie Rowland, and Julie Saville, "Writing Freedom's History: The Destruction of Slavery," Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 17 (Winter 1985): 211-27.

Ira Berlin, Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, "The Terrain of Freedom: The Struggle over the Meaning of Free Labor in the U.S. South," History Workshop, no. 22 (Autumn 1986): 108-30.

Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland, "Afro-American Families in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom," Radical History Review, no. 42 (1988): 89-121.

• Reprinted in Black Women in United States History, ed. Darlene Clark Hine et al. (Carlson, 1990).
• Reprinted in African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, 1861-1900, ed. Donald G. Nieman (Garland, 1994).

Ira Berlin, Wayne Durrill, Steven F. Miller, Leslie S. Rowland, and Leslie Schwalm, "'To Canvass the Nation': The War for Union Becomes a War for Freedom," Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 20 (Winter 1988): 227-47.

Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland, "Between Emancipation and Enfranchisement: Law and the Political Mobilization of Black Southerners during Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867," Chicago-Kent Law Review 70 (1995): 1059-77.

Articles in Magazines for General Readers and/or K-12 Teachers

Ira Berlin, Francine C. Cary, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland, "Family and Freedom: Black Families in the American Civil War," History Today 37 (January 1987): 8-15.

Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland, "Missing: A Freedman Seeks His Family," American Visions 3 (February 1988): 8-9.

Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland, "Emancipated Citizens," Constitution 6 (Fall 1994): 78-87.

Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland, "The Underground Railroad: Travels above Ground," Potomac Review 24 (Fall 1999): 33-36.

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