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Freedom's Promise: Ex-slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation Elizabeth Regosin
Freedom's Promise: Ex-slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation
Elizabeth Regosin
Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to create family relationships that were sanctioned and regulated by the laws that governed all American citizens. This volume explores what this meant to former slaves, personally, socially and politically.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 29, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813920955 |
| Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 220 × 24 mm · 471 g |