The Loyal Republic : Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America /

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Mathisen tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As the author demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathisen, Erik (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nation-state.
Freed persons > Civil rights.
Citizenship.
Allegiance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
nations.
Allegeance.
Nation.
Affranchis > Droits > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > Confederate States of America > History.
Freed persons > Civil rights > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A government without citizens
  • The rise and fall of a slaveholder's republic
  • Schools of citizenship
  • Defining loyalty in an age of emancipation
  • Loyalty under fire
  • It looks much like abandoned land.

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