Publications of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867

Series 1, volume 1, The Destruction of Slavery, ed. Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge University Press, 1985). 896 pp.

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.

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.

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

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, 2008). 1,073 pp.

Series 3, volume 2, Land and Labor, 1866–1867, ed. René Hayden, Anthony E. Kaye, Kate Masur, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, Leslie S. Rowland, and Stephen A. West (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). 1,070 pp.

Other Volumes

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War, by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge University Press, 1992). 243 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Articles in Scholarly Journals

Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, “Writing Freedom's History,” Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 14 (Fall 1982): 129–39.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Articles in Magazines for General Readers and/or K–12 Teachers

Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, “The Moment of Freedom,” Southern Exposure 10 (September/October 1982): 60–64.
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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.
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Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland, “Missing: A Freedman Seeks His Family,” American Visions 3 (February 1988): 8–9.
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Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland, “Emancipated Citizens,” Constitution 6 (Fall 1994): 78–87.
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Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland, “The Underground Railroad: Travels above Ground,” Potomac Review 24 (Fall 1999): 33–36.