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Freedom's Promise : Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation /
"William and Alice's [Timmons] plea on behalf of personal and familial identity reflects broad social and historical issues that frame this study of family in the transition from slavery to freedom in the United States. Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former s...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
2002.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Freedom's Promise : |b Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation / |c Elizabeth Regosin. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Pension Process: A View from Both Sides -- Chapter Two: "We All Have Two Names": Surnames and Familial Identity -- Chapter Three: "According to the Custom of Slaves": Widows' Pension Claims and the Bounds of Marriage -- Chapter Four: "The Order of Civilization": Minors' Pensions, Legitimacy, and the Father-Centered Family -- Chapter Five: "My Master ... Supported Me": Parents' Claims and the Role of the Provider -- Epilogue: The Storytellers -- Notes -- Sources Cited -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "William and Alice's [Timmons] plea on behalf of personal and familial identity reflects broad social and historical issues that frame this study of family in the transition from slavery to freedom in the United States. Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to family. Family relationships were sanctiond, recognized, and regulated by the law of domestic relations that governed the families of all citizens of the country. What did the acquisition of legal familial status mean to former slaves, personally and socially? How actively did former slaves pursue legal status? Were their lives changed as individuals, as members of families, and within a broader social context? Among the many rights that citizenship conferred, did former slaves also envision the right to family? Because the Civil War pension system presents the family at the intersection of the personal and the political, it offers a fascinating source of documentation bearing on these questions. ..."--Preface. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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