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