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Breathing the Freedom's Air": The African American Struggle for Equal Citizenship in Iowa, 1830-1900

Description:

This dissertation explores a seventy-year period of community growth and activism among African Americans in nineteenth-century Iowa, showing how citizenship was defined, contested, expanded and confined. Antebellum black migrants lived on the margins of a hostile society and struggled for equal citizenship using their labor, their community institutions, the legal...

Keyword:

African-American, Iowa, Midwest, Black, and History

Subject:

History

Creator:

David Brodnax

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/31/2018

Date Modified:

08/31/2018

Date Created:

2007-12-14

Resource Type:

Dissertation