Remaking the Republic : black politics and the creation of American citizenship / Christopher James Bonner.

"This is a book in African American history. It is about African Americans' efforts to define citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. The definition of citizenship in the Constitution is vague, and African Americans used that ambiguity to claim specific rights, thereby crafting the defi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bonner, Christopher James (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series:America in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:
African Americans > Political activity > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Citizenship.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:246 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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