Gender and the Jubilee by Sharon Romeo, Timothy S. Huebner, Paul Finkelman
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Description A bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political claims made by African American women. By analysing the actions of women in St. Louis and rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship.
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Gender 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.
Author Biography
Sharon Romeo is an assistant professor of history and classics at the University of Alberta.
Details ISBN 0820353809 ISBN-13 9780820353807 Title Gender and the Jubilee Author Sharon Romeo, Timothy S. Huebner, Paul Finkelman Format Paperback Year 2018 Pages 224 Publisher University of Georgia Press GE_Item_ID:144485999; About Us
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