The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America
Erik Mathisen (Author)
Mathisen tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As the author demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed
eBook, English, 2018
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2018