UID:
edocfu_9959677623302883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
1-4780-9040-5
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1-4780-1025-8
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1-4780-1283-8
Content:
"Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women in the period before, during, and after the Civil War outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim rights in the face of unjust legislation."--
Note:
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
,
Issued also in print.
Additional Edition:
Online version: Brimmer, Brandi Clay, 1973- Claiming union widowhood Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN 9781478012832
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012832
