Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union occupied Lower South. The documents illustrate the experiences of former slaves as military laborers, as residents of federally sponsored contraband