The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United StatesIn the years between the American Revolution and the U. S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by