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Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

Description: Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. Jones explains, no single case defined their status. Former slaves studied law, secured allies, and conducted themselves like citizens, establishing their status through local, everyday claims. All along they argued that birth guaranteed their rights. With fresh archival sources and an ambitious reframing of constitutional law-making before the Civil War, Jones shows how the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized the birthright principle, and black Americans' aspirations were realized. Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans.

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EAN: 9781107150348

UPC: 9781107150348

ISBN: 9781107150348

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Book Title: Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights

Item Length: 23.5 cm

Number of Pages: 266 Pages

Publication Name: Birthright Citizens: a History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

Language: English

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Item Height: 236 mm

Subject: Archaeology, History

Publication Year: 2018

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 510 g

Author: Martha S. Jones

Item Width: 159 mm

Format: Hardcover

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