Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War

by Brian Taylor

Book Overview

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian M. Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469659778
• ISBN13: 9781469659770
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"