The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Kevin Kenny

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A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.

Today the United States considers immigration a federal matter. Yet, despite America's reputation as a "nation of immigrants," the Constitution is silent on the admission, exclusion, and expulsion of foreigners. Before the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0197580084

ISBN13:9780197580080

Release Date:April 2023

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"

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