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- ↑ Reviews of Freedom's Promise:
- Cottrol, Robert J. (2003). "Review". The Journal of Economic History. 63 (3): 902–903. doi:10.1017/S0022050703542292. ISSN 0022-0507. JSTOR 3132338.
- Reece, Lewie (2003). "Review". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 62 (3): 287–288. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42627780.
- Lindquist Dorr, Lisa (2002). "Review of Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 110 (3): 416–417. ISSN 0042-6636. JSTOR 4250045.
- Cody, Cheryll Ann (2003). "Review". The Journal of American History. 90 (3): 1034–1035. doi:10.2307/3660948. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 3660948.
- Mintz, Steven (2004). "Review of Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation". The Journal of Southern History. 70 (1): 178–179. doi:10.2307/27648367. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 27648367.
- Rogers, William Warren (2003). "Review". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 87 (1): 132–135. ISSN 0016-8297. JSTOR 40584629.
- ↑ Reviews of Voices of Emancipation:
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