More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889

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A narrative chronicle of the efforts of Northern activists to establish free citizenship for African Americans before and after the Civil War offers an award-winning historian's perspectives on the era to explain how their campaigns redefined citizenship and extended well beyond the parameters of emancipation. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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  More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White...

  • 2012-08-16
  • 528 pages
  • Ebook
  • Penguin

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