Gender And The Jubilee: Black Freedom And The Reconstruction Of Citizenship In Civil War Missouri (Studies In The Legal History Of The South Ser.)

I told my mistress that the Union soldiers were coming : Black citizenship in Civil War St. Louis -- "A Negro woman is running at large in your city" : contraband women and the transformation of Union military policy -- "A soldier's wife is free" : African American soldiers, their enslaved kin, and military citizenship -- "The first morning of their freedom" : African American women, Black testimony, and military justice -- The legacy of slave marriage : Freedwomen's marital claims and the process of emancipation -- Epilogue

• | Author: Sharon Romeo
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Law
• | ISBN-10: 0820353809
• | ISBN-13: 9780820353807