Remaking the Republic

Remaking the Republic PDF Author: Christopher James Bonner
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ISBN: 0812252063
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Book Description
"This is a book in African American history. It is about African Americans' efforts to define citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. The definition of citizenship in the Constitution is vague, and African Americans used that ambiguity to claim specific rights, thereby crafting the definition of citizenship for all Americans"--