The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America /
Mathisen, Erik,
The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America / Erik Mathisen. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) - Civil War America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A government without citizens -- The rise and fall of a slaveholder's republic -- Schools of citizenship -- Defining loyalty in an age of emancipation -- Loyalty under fire -- It looks much like abandoned land.
Mathisen tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As the author demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed.
9781469636344 9781469636337
Freed persons--Civil rights--History--United States--19th century.
Nation-state.
Allegiance.
Citizenship--History.--Confederate States of America
Citizenship--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
JK1759 / .L693 2018
The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America / Erik Mathisen. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) - Civil War America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A government without citizens -- The rise and fall of a slaveholder's republic -- Schools of citizenship -- Defining loyalty in an age of emancipation -- Loyalty under fire -- It looks much like abandoned land.
Mathisen tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As the author demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed.
9781469636344 9781469636337
Freed persons--Civil rights--History--United States--19th century.
Nation-state.
Allegiance.
Citizenship--History.--Confederate States of America
Citizenship--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
JK1759 / .L693 2018