Fighting for citizenship : black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War
Bibliographic Information
- Title
- "Fighting for citizenship : black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War"
- Statement of Responsibility
- Brian Taylor
- Publisher
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- University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Year
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- c2020
- Book size
- 25 cm
- Series Name / No
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- : cloth
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Notes
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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography: p. 211-227
Includes index
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1130856340808148888
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- NII Book ID
- BC16530690
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- ISBN
- 9781469659763
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- LCCN
- 2020004162
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- Web Site
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004162
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Country Code
- us
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- Title Language Code
- en
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- Place of Publication
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- Chapel Hill
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Books