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Author Lee, Susanna Michele, 1975- author.

Title Claiming the Union : citizenship in the post-Civil War South / Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Series Cambridge studies on the American South
Cambridge studies on the American South.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "We have Fought the First Skirmish": Loyalty and Citizenship; "Is He Who Was a Traitor Last Year, Necessarily a Traitor Now?"; "An Invention of a Convenient and Just and Truthful Mode of Ascertaining the Claims of Loyal Citizens"; "The Only Barrier Which Now Stands Between the Disloyal Claimants and the Treasury"; 2 Men's Union: Fixing the Standard of a Union Man; "A Bold Outspoken Uncompromising Union Man"; "At Heart a Union Man."
"Independent Rebel and Traitor""An Amiable, Timid, Neutral Character"; "A Republican Since the War Closed"; "Poor Hardworking People"; "Once a Slaveholder"; 3 Women's Union: Reckoning with the Female Union Man; "The Rabidest Kind of a Union Person"; "As She Was a Woman, Nothing Direct as to Loyalty or Disloyalty Can Be Expected"; "As a Woman I Took No Part"; "No More than Natural"; 4 Former Slaves' Union: Bestowing Charity or Rewarding Loyalty; "Always A Union Man Although a Slave"; "A Hard Down Slave"; "Friend to the Old Government"; "A Slave Disloyal."
5 The Colored Union: estowing Charity or Rewardin"All the Colored People Were for the Union"; "We Were Called Free"; "Called a Colored Person ... but ... Not a Slave"; "The Indians Were All Union People"; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Standing Interrogatories of 1871; I. Questions to be answered by claimants under oath.; II. Questions as to the taking or furnishing of the property, to be answered by the claimant and his witnesses, under oath; Standing Interrogatories of 1872; Standing Interrogatories of 1874; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1 "We have Fought the First Skirmish."
Chapter 2 Men's UnionChapter 3 Women's Union; Chapter 4 Former Slaves' Union; Chapter 5 The Colored Union; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Court of Claims, Committee on Claims, and Southern Claims Commission Records; Supreme Court Cases; Newspapers and Periodicals; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index
Summary This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Commissioners of Claims.
SUBJECT United States. Commissioners of Claims fast
Subject Confiscations -- Confederate States of America
Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Reparations -- Southern States
African Americans -- Reparations -- Southern States
Women -- Reparations -- Southern States
Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Compensation (Law) -- United States
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
African Americans -- Reparations
Citizenship
Compensation (Law)
Confiscations
Ethics
Bürgerrecht
Loyalität
Nation
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Claims. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140224
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140227
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Moral and ethical aspects
Subject Southern States
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form Claims
History
Form Electronic book
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