Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War - Civil War America - Brian Taylor - Books - The University of North Carolina Press - 9781469659770 - September 21, 2020
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Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War - Civil War America

Brian Taylor

Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War - Civil War America

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights.


248 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 21, 2020
ISBN13 9781469659770
Publishers The University of North Carolina Press
Pages 248
Dimensions 390 g

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