Fighting for citizenship : Black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War /
Understanding debates over African Americans' enlistment exposes a formative moment in the development of American citizenship, Black Northerners' key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship for black men and women, a term that had no precise definition prior to the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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| Summary: | Understanding debates over African Americans' enlistment exposes a formative moment in the development of American citizenship, Black Northerners' key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship for black men and women, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself, unquestionably one of the war's most important results. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 236 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469659763 146965976X 9781469659770 1469659778 |