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Birthright Citizens A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)

Martha S. Jones

Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans. Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African Ame...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein introduced the book as the work through which he first encountered Jones' scholarship, noting its focus on Black American activists tackling citizenship gaps in the early Republic.

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I was first introduced to Jones' work through her book Birthright Citizens, A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.

— Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Lo...

Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like

Ezra Klein introduced the book as the work through which he first encountered Jones' scholarship, noting its focus on Black American activists tackling citizenship gaps in the early Republic.

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I was first introduced to Jones' work through her book Birthright Citizens, A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.

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