Freedmen and Southern Society Project
FAIN: RQ-249867-16
University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
Leslie S. Rowland (Project Director: December 2015 to May 2021)
Editorial work on Volume 8,
on family and kinship, for the nine-volume series, Freedom: A Documentary
History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. See website at http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/.
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project is editing Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, a nine-volume documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the U.S. South. The edition documents a critical juncture in American history: the moment four million slaves gained their freedom. It constitutes a social history in the words of emancipated slaves and their contemporaries. Six volumes are in print; the manuscript for the seventh will go to the press in late 2016; and work on the eighth will be well advanced by the beginning of the proposed grant period. Each volume of Freedom is between 800 and 1,100 pages, twice the size of the volumes in most editions. The editors have published four additional volumes for general audiences and use in the classroom, as well as article-length collections of documents. The project's web site provides both documents and interpretive material; it has been cited as one of the best sites for humanities education.
Associated Products
Freedmen and Southern Society Project (Web Resource)Title: Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Author: Steven F. Miller
Author: Leslie S. Rowland
Abstract: The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to locate and publish documents that portray the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners. This is the project's website, which contains a selection of documents at http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/sampdocs.htm.
Year: 1997
Primary URL:
http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/Primary URL Description: Project website