LEADER 04680nam 2200697 450 001 9910466131603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8203-4804-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000578013 035 $a(EBL)4397157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001600433 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16308128 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001600433 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13936209 035 $a(PQKB)11057249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397157 035 $a(OCoLC)935989836 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46351 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11163562 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL889008 035 $a(OCoLC)935639307 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000578013 100 $a20160615h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGender and the Jubilee $eBlack freedom and the reconstruction of citizenship in Civil War Missouri /$fSharon Romeo 210 1$aAthens, Georgia :$cThe University of Georgia Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the Legal History of the South 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-5380-9 311 $a0-8203-4801-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"I told my mistress that the Union soldiers were coming" : Black citizenship in Civil War St. Louis -- "A Negro woman is running at large in your city" : contraband women and the transformation of Union military policy -- "A soldier's wife is free" : African American soldiers, their enslaved kin, and military citizenship -- "The first morning of their freedom" : African American women, Black testimony, and military justice -- The legacy of slave marriage : Freedwomen's marital claims and the process of emancipation -- Epilogue. 330 2 $a"Gender and the Jubilee offers a re-examination of the legal legacy of the Civil War, with regard to African Americans, using Missouri as a case study with broader implications. As the United States transformed from a slaveholding republic into a modern nation-state, what were the mechanisms by which citizenship was re-conceptualized? Among the multiple and contested visions of citizenship circulated during the Civil War, how did enslaved people come to be recognized as potential citizens? This book analyzes the process that produced the inclusive birthright citizenship manifested in the Fourteenth Amendment. African American women inserted themselves as members of the nation-state during the turbulent years of the Civil War crisis. They positioned themselves, rhetorically, as patriots for the Union cause. As self-identified patriots, enslaved women requested military protection from slave owners. Women fled to federal troops stationed in the city and sought a right to federal protection from abusive slave owners prior to the enactment of any emancipatory acts on the part of military policy or the federal government. This assumption of federal protection prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, in a state outside the jurisdiction of the Emancipation Proclamation, suggests a deep investment in the ideal of a broad national citizenship that included the African American population. The litigating slave women of antebellum St. Louis, and the female activists of the Civil War period, left a rich legal heritage to those who would continue the struggle for civil rights in the postwar era. African American women would continue to play a critical role in their own liberation following the war"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aStudies in the legal history of the South. 606 $aAfrican American women$xCivil rights$zMissouri$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlaves$xCivil rights$zMissouri$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCitizenship$zMissouri$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican American women$xLegal status, laws, etc$zMissouri$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCivil-military relations$zMissouri$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aSlaves$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aCitizenship$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aCivil-military relations$xHistory 676 $a305.48/896073077809034 700 $aRomeo$b Sharon$0977052 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466131603321 996 $aGender and the Jubilee$92225779 997 $aUNINA