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

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197580080,0197580084,9780197580103, 0197580106

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• ISBN 10: 0197580106
• ISBN 13: 9780197580103
• Author: Kevin Kenny

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 Civil War, the federal government played virtually no role in regulating immigration, and states set their own terms for regulating the movement of immigrants, free blacks, and enslaved people. Insisting that it was their right and their obligation to protect the public health and safety, states passed their own laws prohibiting the arrival of foreign convicts, requiring shipmasters to post bonds or pay taxes for passengers who might become public charges, ordering the deportation of immigrant paupers, quarantining passengers who carried contagious diseases, excluding or expelling free blacks, and imprisoning black sailors. To the extent that these laws affected foreigners, they comprised the immigration policy of the United States.

Table contents:

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

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