As I mentioned
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Robert E. Lee commanded the force that captured Brown at Harper’s Ferry
Posted by: waldo | Aug 11, 2009 2:34:58 PM
And there’s also an excellent history of how the whole inchoate concept of American citizenship was complicated by, among other things, slavery and race: James H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608-1870 (1978).
Posted by: Bruce Boyden | Aug 11, 2009 12:18:13 PM
Great post! You probably already know about them, but just in case – Prof. Harris-Lacewell’s recent DuBois Lectures at Harvard explore these very citizenship questions. And you can watch them on line: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/other?page=1
Posted by: Joe Miller | Aug 11, 2009 9:52:07 AM