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Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Salamishah Tillet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-26 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud
Fighting for Citizenship
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Brian Taylor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-03 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recog
A Colony of Citizens
Language: en
Pages: 467
Authors: Laurent Dubois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over sla
Birthright Citizens
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Martha S. Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.
Beyond Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Frederick Cooper
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-30 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery