Creating citizenship in the nineteenth-century South /edited by William A. Link [and others.

Creating citizenship in the nineteenth-century South /edited by William A. Link [and others. Creating citizenship in the 19th century South - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1: Citizenship in an enslaved society -- 1. "Ter show yo de value of slaves": The pricing of human property / 2. Rewriting the free negro past: Joseph Lumpkin, proslavery ideology, and citizenship in Antebellum Georgia / 3. Free people of color, expulsion, and enslavement in the Antebellum South / 4. Citizenship, democracy, and the structure of politics in the old South: John Calhoun's conundrum / Part 2: Reconstructing citizenship -- 5. Personal reconstructions: Confederates as citizens in the post-Civil War South / 6. Citizenship and racial order in post-Civil War Atlanta / 7. The antithesis of Union men and Confederate rebels: loyal citizenship in the post-Civil War South / Part 3: Reimagining citizenship -- 8. Dark Satanic fields: Uncle Tom's cabin, industrialization, and the U.S. imperial imaginary / 9. Fables of the reconstruction: the citizen as character / 10. White supremacy and the question of black citizenship in the post-emancipation South / 11. Tolentino, Cable, and Tourgee confront the new South and the new imperialism / Epilogue: Place as everywhere: on globalizing the American South / Daina Ramey Berry -- Watson Jennison -- Emily West -- David Brown -- James J. Broomall -- William A. Link -- Susanna Michele Lee -- Jennifer Rae Greeson -- Scott Romine -- Daryl Michael Scott -- Peter Schmidt -- Michael O'brien.

An edited collection resulting from four international conferences held between 2008 and 2010 on the theme of citizenship in the nineteenth-century American South.



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African Americans--Social conditions--Southern States--19th century--Congresses.
Citizenship--History--Southern States--19th century--Congresses.
Slavery--History--Southern States--19th century--Congresses.


Electronic Books.

F213 / .C743 2013