The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America

by Erik Mathisen

Book Overview

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. Ideas about loyalty emerged as a key to citizenship, and this change presented opportunities and profound...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469636328
• ISBN13: 9781469636320
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.8"