The Politics of Black Citizenship Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 |
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Author:
| Diemer, Andrew K. Newman, Richard S. Rael, Patrick Sinha, Manisha |
Series title: | Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5550-4 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2019 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, this book shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics - it was an effort to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiate the complex politics in which that concept was determined.
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, this book shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics - it was an effort to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiate the complex politics in which that concept was determined.