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

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

Studies in Legal History

Martha S. Jones

266 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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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