More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889

by Stephen Kantrowitz

Book Overview

A major new account of the Northern movement to establish African Americans as full citizens before, during, and after the Civil War In More Than Freedom , award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz offers a bold rethinking of the Civil War era. Kantrowitz show how the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign by African Americans to claim full citizenship and to remake the white republic into a place where they could belong...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143123440
• ISBN13: 9780143123446
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher