Remaking the Republic - Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship

Examining newpsapers, conventions, public protest meetings, and fugitive slave rescues, Christopher James Bonner highlights a spirited debate among African Americans in the nineteenth century, the stakes of which could determine their place in U.S. society and shape the terms of citizenship for all Americans.

List of contents

Introduction: Making Black Citizenship Politics

Chapter 1. An Integral Portion of This Republic

Chapter 2. "Union Is Strength": Building an American Citizenship

Chapter 3. Nations, Revolutions, and the Borders of Citizenship

Chapter 4. Runaways, or Citizens Claimed as Such

Chapter 5. Contesting the "Foul and Infamous Lie" of Dred Scott

Chapter 6. Black Politics and the Roots of Reconstruction

Epilogue: The Enduring Search for Home

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Christopher James Bonner

Summary

Examining newpsapers, conventions, public protest meetings, and fugitive slave rescues, Christopher James Bonner highlights a spirited debate among African Americans in the nineteenth century, the stakes of which could determine their place in U.S. society and shape the terms of citizenship for all Americans.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher James Bonner
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2020
• EAN: 9780812252064
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5206-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous