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" Show thyself a man : "
Gregory Mixon.
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BL
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613732
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Mixon, Gregory
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Show thyself a man : : Georgia State troops, colored, 1865-1905 /\ Gregory Mixon.
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| Series Statement
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Southern dissent
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xiv, 419 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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9780813062723
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: 0813062721
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-403) and index.
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The search for freedom : black militiamen in nineteenth-century North America -- "We called it 'The Band of Brothers'" : black independent militia formation and the Johnson County insurrection of 1875 -- Creating the Georgia Militia : blacks and the road to state militia companies, 1865-1880 -- "Any person capable of doing military duty" : The Georgia Volunteers, 1878-1890s -- "Be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man" : Georgia Volunteers, colored, 1889-1895 -- The road to disbandment, 1896-1899 -- The new era, 1899-1905.
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"In this social and political history, Gregory Mixon explores the ways African Americans in postbellum Georgia used the militia as a vehicle to secure full citizenship, respectability, and a more stable place in society. In telling the forty-year history of the black militia in Georgia and the determined disbandment process that whites undertook to destroy it, Mixon not only shows the key role that militia participation played in African Americans' search for citizenship after the Civil War, but he also connects this chapter to the larger history of militia participation by African descendant people throughout the Western hemisphere and Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
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Georgia.-- History.
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Georgia.
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African American soldiers-- Georgia-- History.
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- Georgia-- History.
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African American soldiers.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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Race relations.
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Georgia, Race relations, History.
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Georgia.
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