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Claiming Union widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South /

In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the world of New Bern, North Carolina's grassroots pension network through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brimmer, Brandi Clay, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Minorities > History > 19th century.
Military pensions > United States > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Military pensions > North Carolina.
Widows > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
African American women > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
Racism > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pensions.

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