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050		4	_aE185.93.M7R65 2016
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100	1		_aRomeo, Sharon.
245	1	0	_aGender and the Jubilee : _bBlack Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aAthens, GA : _bUniversity of Georgia Press, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_a1 online resource (225 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in the Legal History of the South
505	0		_aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 "I Told My Mistress That the Union Soldiers Were Coming": Black Citizenship in Civil War St. Louis -- CHAPTER 2 "A Negro Woman Is Running at Large in Your City": Contraband Women and the Transformation of Union Military Policy -- CHAPTER 3 "A Soldier's Wife Is Free": African American Soldiers, Their Enslaved Kin, and Military Citizenship -- CHAPTER 4 "The First Morning of Their Freedom": African American Women, Black Testimony, and Military Justice -- CHAPTER 5 The Legacy of Slave Marriage: Freedwomen's Marital Claims and the Process of Emancipation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
520			_aGender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship. During the turbulent years of the Civil War crisis, African American women asserted their vision of freedom through a multitude of strategies. They took concerns ordinarily under the jurisdiction of civil courts, such as assault and child custody, and transformed them into military matters. African American women petitioned military police for "free papers"; testified against former owners; fled to contraband camps; and "joined the army" with their male relatives, serving as cooks, laundresses, and nurses. Freedwomen, and even enslaved women, used military courts to lodge complaints against employers and former masters, sought legal recognition of their marriages, and claimed pensions as the widows of war veterans. Through military venues, African American women in a state where the institution of slavery remained unmolested by the Emancipation Proclamation, demonstrated a claim on citizenship rights well before they would be guaranteed through the establishment of the Fourteenth Amendment. The litigating slave women of antebellum St. Louis, and the female activists of the Civil War period, left a rich legal heritage to those who would continue the struggle for civil rights in the postbellum era.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aAfrican American women--Civil rights--Missouri--History--19th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRomeo, Sharon _tGender and the Jubilee _dAthens, GA : University of Georgia Press,c2016 _z9780820348018
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aStudies in the Legal History of the South
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4397157 _zClick to View
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