The problem of immigration in a slaveholding republic : policing mobility in the nineteenth-century United States / Kevin Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Kevin, 1960- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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 the present day.

Contents:

Cover

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: Sovereign States

1. Foundations

2. Police Power and Commerce Power

3. The Threat to Slavery

4. The Boundaries of Political Community

PART TWO: Immigration in the Age of Emancipation

5. The Antislavery Origins of Immigration Policy

6. Reconstruction

7. Immigration and National Sovereignty

Epilogue

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-758011-4

0-19-758009-2

0-19-758010-6

OCLC:

1373345734