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Acknowledgments Publication of Land and Labor, 1866–1867, the second volume of series 3 of Freedom, provides an occasion to thank the men and women whose labors have left their mark on this volume and on the work of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project more generally. Our largest debt, as always, is to the National Archives and Records Administration and to the dedicated archivists, past and present, who have maintained it over the years. The source of all the documents published in Freedom, the National Archives is a monument to the ongoing commitment of its staff to preserve and make accessible the documentary heritage of the United States. In a time of fiscal stringency and budgetary belt-tightening, three public entities have steadfastly provided the Freedmen and Southern Society Project with funds, the lifeblood of scholarly work. For generous support reaching back to the project’s founding, we thank the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Timothy Connelly, our NHPRC program officer, deserves special mention. The National Endowment for the Humanities is another longstanding benefactor. We express our gratitude to the Endowment and extend particular thanks to Lydia Medici, our program officer. The project’s institutional home, the University of Maryland, has been an unwavering source of financial backing and other support. Our thanks go to the Department of History, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the office of the Vice President for Research.We would like in particular to acknowledge Richard Price and James F. Harris, longtime friends of the project during their recently concluded terms as, respectively, chair of the department and dean of the college. At the university’s Office of Research Administration and Advancement, Stephanie Swartz and her predecessor, Stephanie Brackins, assisted in the submission of grant proposals and served as liaison between the project and its funding agencies. Thanks also go to several individuals who toiled in the project’s offices alongside the editors of this volume and contributed in a variety of ways to its completion. While primarily engaged in other work, John W. McKerley and Jesse Turner Schreier were pressed into service proofreading documents. Holly Byers Ochoa, a veteran of other historical editing projects, provided invaluable part-time assistance during the final stages of proofreading and fact-checking. The volume is the better for their efforts. We are particularly indebted to the project’s graduate assistants, who tracked down documents at the National Archives, rendered into typescript the handwritten scrawls of nineteenth-century writers and twenty-first-century editors, maintained the project’s library and finding aids, and performed countless other tasks. Thanayi Jackson and Ashley Towle were the longest-serving graduate assistants during the x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS years in which this volume came to fruition; Ashley merits special mention for her work in proofreading and fact-checking and for staying cool under the pressure of late-stage deadlines. During briefer terms, Katarina Keane, Rebecca Weiters Moake, and Helena Iles Papaioannou dispatched their manifold duties with skill, patience, and good humor. We are grateful to them all, and wish them well as they complete their graduate educations and embark on new careers. As he did for its predecessor, Eric Foner critiqued the volume’s introductory and chapter essays. His close reading unearthed factual errors, prodded us to rethink or clarify our argument at important points, and rooted out infelicities of expression. Both we and our readers have benefited from his unrivaled knowledge of the Reconstruction era. The consummate professionals at the University of North Carolina Press guided the passage of a large and complex manuscript into a book. Our editor, David Perry, offered encouragement and kept us on schedule. Ron Maner, managing editor, not only shepherded the volume through production, but also copyedited the volume’s essays with uncanny attention to detail. Margaretta Yarborough copyedited the annotation of the documents. We deeply appreciate their efforts. ...

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