More Than Freedom Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889

Name: More Than Freedom Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
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ISBN: 9780143123446

ISBN-10: 0143123440

ISBN-13: 9780143123446

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stephen Kantrowitz

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A major new account of the Northern movement to establish African Americans as full citizens before, during, and after the Civil War InMore Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz offers a bold rethinking of the Civil War era. Kantrowitz show how the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign by African Americans to claim full citizenship and to remake the white republic into a place where they could belong.More Than Freedomchronicles this epic struggle through the lives of black and white abolitionists in and around Boston, including Frederick Douglass, Senator Charles Sumner, and lesser known but equally important figures. Their bold actions…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Stephen Kantrowitz is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 and Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy .



Introduction



Confronting Slavery and Freedom



A Place for "Colored Citizens"



Fighting Jim Crow in the Cradle of Liberty



Our Unfinished Church



The Means of Elevation



Fighting Like Men



The Heirs of Crispus Attucks



Outlaws



The Fall and Rise of the United States



The Disappointments of Citizenship



Radical Reconstruction on Beacon Hill



"The War of Races"



Burying Lewis Hayden


Epilogue: More Than Freedom


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index