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

by Kevin Kenny

Book Overview

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"