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Term | Definition |
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Agency | ability to make choices; to have control, even if limited, over your life, your body, and your choices |
Freedpeople | the formerly enslaved masses of people who had been released from slavery by the Emancipation Proclamation or through freeing themselves through running away to Union soilders. |
Emancipation Proclamation | an executive order (a law passed by the President under certain conditions) in 1863 that "freed" all the slaves in the states that had formed the confederacy. |
Primary source | a historical document that was created at or near the time of the events studied, by a known person, for a known purpose. |
Historiography | the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline |