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Introduction

A New Kind of Nation – Amputation, Reconstruction, and the Promise of Black Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2024

Sarah E. Chinn
Affiliation:
Hunter College, City University of New York
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The Introduction lays out the theoretical and political stakes of the book. It shows how abolitionist white radicals saw enslavement as a diseased part of the national body that had to be lopped off. Through an exploration of political speeches, cartoons, song-sheets, sermons, fiction, and poetry, the author shows how the amputated bodies of Civil War veterans represented the possibility of a new kind of nation that had Black citizenship at its core.

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  • Introduction
  • Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, City University of New York
  • Book: Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Online publication: 13 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442657.001
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  • Introduction
  • Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, City University of New York
  • Book: Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Online publication: 13 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442657.001
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  • Introduction
  • Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, City University of New York
  • Book: Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Online publication: 13 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442657.001
Available formats
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