Claiming Union WidowhoodRace, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South

In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mother...

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Main Author: Brimmer, Brandi Clay (Author)
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