Creating Citizenship In The Nineteenth-century South
by David Brown /
2013 / English / PDF
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More than merely a legal status, citizenship is also a form of
belonging, giving shape to a person's rights, duties, and identity,
exerting a powerful historical influence in the making of the
modern world. The pioneering essays in this volume are the first to
address the evolution and significance of citizenship in the South
from the antebellum era, through the Civil War, and down into the
late nineteenth century. They explore the politics and meanings of
citizenry and citizens' rights in the nineteenth-century American
South: from the full citizenship of some white males to the partial
citizenship of women with no voting rights, from the precarious
position of free blacks and enslaved African American
anti-citizens, to postwar Confederate rebels who were not "loyal
citizens" according to the federal government but forcibly asserted
their citizenship as white supremacy was restored in the Jim Crow
South.
More than merely a legal status, citizenship is also a form of
belonging, giving shape to a person's rights, duties, and identity,
exerting a powerful historical influence in the making of the
modern world. The pioneering essays in this volume are the first to
address the evolution and significance of citizenship in the South
from the antebellum era, through the Civil War, and down into the
late nineteenth century. They explore the politics and meanings of
citizenry and citizens' rights in the nineteenth-century American
South: from the full citizenship of some white males to the partial
citizenship of women with no voting rights, from the precarious
position of free blacks and enslaved African American
anti-citizens, to postwar Confederate rebels who were not "loyal
citizens" according to the federal government but forcibly asserted
their citizenship as white supremacy was restored in the Jim Crow
South.