The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic [electronic resource] : Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
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 po...
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2023.
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