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1 online resource (270 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies on the American South
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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." |
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"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." |
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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." |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States. Commissioners of Claims.
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United States. Commissioners of Claims. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Claims.
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Confiscations -- Confederate States of America.
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Confiscations. |
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Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Reparations -- Southern States.
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Unionists (United States Civil War) |
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Reparations for historical injustices. |
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Southern States. |
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African Americans -- Reparations -- Southern States.
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African Americans -- Reparations. |
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Women -- Reparations -- Southern States.
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Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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Citizenship. |
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19th century |
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Compensation (Law) -- United States.
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Compensation (Law) |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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History. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Ethics. |
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United States -- Confederate States of America. |
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Bürgerrecht. |
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Loyalität. |
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Nation. |
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USA -- Südstaaten. |
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Claims.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lee, Susanna Michele. Claiming the Union. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781139865005 |
| ISBN |
9781139870733 (electronic book) |
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1139870734 (electronic book) |
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9781139865005 (electronic book) |
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1139865005 (electronic book) |
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9781139058421 (electronic book) |
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1139058428 (electronic book) |
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9781107015326 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1107015324 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
