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Freedom's promise : ex-slave families and citizenship in the Age of Emancipation / Elizabeth Regosin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Regosin, Elizabeth Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Citizenship.
- History.
- Freed persons--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Freed persons.
- Social conditions.
- African American families.
- Liberty--Social aspects.
- Liberty.
- United States.
- Liberty--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- African American families--History--19th century.
- Freed persons--United States--Social conditions.
- Freed persons--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Citizenship--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 239 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 The Pension Process: A View from Both Sides 23
- 2 "We All Have Two Names": Surnames and Familial Identity 54
- 3 "According to the Custom of Slaves": Widows' Pension Claims and the Bounds of Marriage 79
- 4 "The Order of Civilization": Minors' Pensions, Legitimacy, and the Father-Centered Family 114
- 5 "My Master ... Supported Me": Parents' Claims and the Role of the Provider 148
- Epilogue: The Storytellers 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813920957
- 0813920965
- OCLC:
- 47785625
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