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A Politics of Service: Black Northerners’ Debates over Enlistment in the American Civil War
Ist Teil von
Civil War history, 2012-12, Vol.58 (4), p.451-480
Ort / Verlag
Kent: The Kent State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
African Americans' shifting attitudes toward military service and their complicated concerns about citizenship are investigated. Taylor, recognizing that black northerners did not see enlistment as a foregone conclusion, carefully follows the debate between black northerners who advocated immediate enlistment and those who argued that black men should wait until guaranteed rights commensurated with full manhood and citizenship before enlisting. "In this debate," Taylor contends, "black northerners articulated a politics of service that sought to use enlistment as a bargaining chip for the attainment of expanded rights and privileges--and through this politics of service, they evinced that they fought not to restore the old Union but to usher in a new, reformed one in which they would be treated as men and citizens."