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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831840803321

Autore

Brimmer Brandi Clay <1973->

Titolo

Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South / / Brandi Clay Brimmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4780-9040-5

1-4780-1025-8

1-4780-1283-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

973.7469

Soggetti

Military pensions - United States - Civil War, 1861-1865

Military pensions - North Carolina

Widows - North Carolina - History - 19th century

African American women - North Carolina - History - 19th century

Women's rights - United States - History - 19th century

Racism - United States - History - 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pensions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A People and a Place -- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850- -- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920 -- Encountering the State -- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits -- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network -- Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners -- Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation" -- The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood

Sommario/riassunto

"Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women in the period before, during, and after the Civil War outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim rights in the face of unjust legislation."--