Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones

Studies in Legal History

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

Martha S. Jones

266 pages paperback 2018

6 editions

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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 legislatu...

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