Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
ISBN: 9781478012832
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: History / U.S. History; African American Studies and Black Diaspora; Gender and Sexuality / Feminism and Women’s Studies;

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.

Brandi Clay Brimmer is Associate Professor of History at Spelman College.

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