عنوان

Freedom's promise :

(Number (ISBN

0813921732

(Number (ISBN

9780813921730

Erroneous ISBN

0813920957

Erroneous ISBN

0813920965

Erroneous ISBN

9780813920955

Erroneous ISBN

9780813920962

Number

b780020

Title Proper

Freedom's promise :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

ex-slave families and citizenship in the Age of Emancipation /

First Statement of Responsibility

Elizabeth Regosin.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Charlottesville :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University Press of Virginia,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.

Text of Note

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Pension Process: A View from Both Sides -- Chapter Two: "We All Have Two Names": Surnames and Familial Identity -- Chapter Three: "According to the Custom of Slaves": Widows' Pension Claims and the Bounds of Marriage -- Chapter Four: "The Order of Civilization": Minors' Pensions, Legitimacy, and the Father-Centered Family -- Chapter Five: "My Master ... Supported Me": Parents' Claims and the Role of the Provider -- Epilogue: The Storytellers -- Notes -- Sources Cited -- Index.

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Text of Note

"William and Alice's [Timmons] plea on behalf of personal and familial identity reflects broad social and historical issues that frame this study of family in the transition from slavery to freedom in the United States. Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to family. Family relationships were sanctiond, recognized, and regulated by the law of domestic relations that governed the families of all citizens of the country. What did the acquisition of legal familial status mean to former slaves, personally and socially? How actively did former slaves pursue legal status? Were their lives changed as individuals, as members of families, and within a broader social context? Among the many rights that citizenship conferred, did former slaves also envision the right to family? Because the Civil War pension system presents the family at the intersection of the personal and the political, it offers a fascinating source of documentation bearing on these questions. ..."--Preface.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt6t9tnr

Title

Freedom's promise.

International Standard Book Number

0813920965

African American families-- History-- 19th century.

Citizenship-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Freedmen-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- United States.

Freedmen-- United States-- Social conditions.

Liberty-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Slaves-- Emancipation-- United States.

African American families.

Citizenship.

Freedmen-- Legal status, laws, etc.

Freedmen-- Social conditions.

HISTORY-- United States-- Civil War Period (1850-1877)

HISTORY.

Liberty-- Social aspects.

Slaves-- Emancipation.

United States.

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HIS-- 036050

HIS036050

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Regosin, Elizabeth Ann.

Date of Transaction

20201206190057.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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