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Show Thyself a Man : Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905 /

"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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Autor principal: Mixon, Gregory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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