Show thyself a man : Georgia State troops, colored, 1865-1905

• Tác giả: Gregory Mixon
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9780813062723 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 355.3708996073075809034 Organization and personnel of military forces
• Mô tả vật lý: xiv, 419 pages : , illustrations, map ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 277588
• Chủ đề: 1. African American soldiers--History--Georgia; 2. African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and index.

Tóm tắt

"In Show Thyself a Man, Gregory Mixon explores the ways in which African Americans in postbellum Georgia used militia service after the Civil War to define freedom and citizenship. In telling the forty-year history of the black militia in Georgia and the determined disbandment process that whites undertook to destroy it, Mixon not only shows the key role that militia participation played in African Americans' search for citizenship after the Civil War, but he also connects this chapter to the larger history of militia participation by African descendant people throughout the Western hemisphere and Latin America"--Provided by publisher.