Title Claiming union widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South / Brandi Clay Brimmer

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents A People and a Place -- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850- -- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920 -- Encountering the State -- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits -- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network -- Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners -- Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation" -- The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood Summary "In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the world of New Bern, North Carolina's grassroots pension network through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions promised to the relatives of dead or maimed Union soldiers. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy, law administration, and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2020) digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject United States. Army -- Minorities -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT United States. Army fast (OCoLC)fst00533532 Subject Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Widows -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century Military pensions -- North Carolina African American women -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) African American women Armed Forces -- Minorities Military pensions Pensions Racism Widows Women's rights SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pensions Subject North Carolina United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020018450 ISBN 9781478090403 1478090405 1478012838 9781478011323 1478011327 9781478012832

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