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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- If we are not citizens, then what are we? To 1861
- A white man's war? April 1861-December 1862
- Decision time : January-August 1863
- Contracts of war : September 1864-April 1865
- Making black service matter : 1865-1883.
