Fighting for citizenship : Black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War / Brian Taylor.

Author/creator Taylor, Brian author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Descriptionxii, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCivil War America
Civil War America (Series) ^A325557
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.
Abstract "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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2020004162
ISBN9781469659763 hardcover
ISBN146965976X hardcover
ISBN9781469659770 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN1469659778 paperback alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner NC Stacks E540.B53 T29 2020 ✔ Available Place Hold