Remaking the Republic : black politics and the creation of American citizenship /
This is a book in African American history. It is about African Americans' efforts to define citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. The definition of citizenship in the Constitution is vague, and African Americans used that ambiguity to claim specific rights, thereby crafting the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | America in the nineteenth century.
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| Summary: | This is a book in African American history. It is about African Americans' efforts to define citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. The definition of citizenship in the Constitution is vague, and African Americans used that ambiguity to claim specific rights, thereby crafting the definition of citizenship for all Americans. |
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| Physical Description: | 246 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812252064 0812252063 |