Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate Over Military Service in the Civil War

ISBN-10
1469659794
ISBN-13
9781469659794
Category
History
Language
English
Published
2020
Author
Brian M. Taylor

Description

"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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