Claiming Union Widowhood: race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South

A People and a Place -- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850- -- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920 -- Encountering the State -- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits -- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network --...

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1. Verfasser: Brimmer, Brandi Clay 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:A People and a Place -- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850- -- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920 -- Encountering the State -- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits -- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network -- Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners -- Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation" -- The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 306 pages) illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781478012832
1478012838

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