Fighting for citizenship : Black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War

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

Author/creator	Taylor, Brian (Brian M.) author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Description	xii, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Citizenship--United States --History. African American soldiers--History --19th century. African Americans--History --19th century. United States--History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --African Americans.

Series	Civil 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 note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2020004162
ISBN	9781469659763 hardcover
ISBN	146965976X hardcover
ISBN	9781469659770 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN	1469659778 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN	electronic book

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