Kampf um die Staatsbürgerschaft: Schwarze Nordstaatler und die Debatte über den Militärdienst im Bürgerkrieg

Author/Contributor(s):	Taylor, Brian
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	09/21/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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"--