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Birthright Citizens - A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Hardcover)
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Birthright Citizens - A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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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
legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable
opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in
Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. Jones explains, no single case defined
their status. Former slaves studied law, secured allies, and
conducted themselves like citizens, establishing their status
through local, everyday claims. All along they argued that birth
guaranteed their rights. With fresh archival sources and an
ambitious reframing of constitutional law-making before the Civil
War, Jones shows how the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized
the birthright principle, and black Americans' aspirations were
realized. Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists
radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans.
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