Show thyself a man : Georgia State troops, colored, 1865-1905 /

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"In this social and political history, Gregory Mixon explores the ways African Americans in postbellum Georgia used the militia as a vehicle to secure full citizenship, respectability, and a more stable place in society. In telling the forty-year history of the black militia in Georgia and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mixon, Gregory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Southern dissent.
Temas:
Georgia. > Militia > History.
Georgia. > Militia.
African American soldiers > Georgia > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > Georgia > History.
Militaires noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Droits > Géorgie (État) > Histoire.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American soldiers.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Race relations.
Georgia > Race relations > History.
Géorgie (État) > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Georgia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The search for freedom : black militiamen in nineteenth-century North America
  • "We called it 'The Band of Brothers'" : black independent militia formation and the Johnson County insurrection of 1875
  • Creating the Georgia Militia : blacks and the road to state militia companies, 1865-1880
  • "Any person capable of doing military duty" : The Georgia Volunteers, 1878-1890s
  • "Be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man" : Georgia Volunteers, colored, 1889-1895
  • The road to disbandment, 1896-1899
  • The new era, 1899-1905.

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