The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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A sweeping history of nineteenth-century America, this book shows how slavery shaped immigration policy in the United States during the years when states controlled mobility within and across their borders. Only after the abolition of slavery did Congress begin to implement a national immigration policy, applying the policies of border control and deportation to different racial groups that continue to generate tensions between state and federal authority to thepresent day.

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Writer: Kenny, Kevin (Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucksman Ireland House
Title: The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 344
Weight: 120 gr

EAN: 9780197580080
Dimensions: 166 x 244 x 30 mm
Binding format: Hardback

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Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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