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

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Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War - Taylor, Brian
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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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Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War 2020, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469659770

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Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War 2020, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469659763

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