Andrew K Diemer: 1 book
The Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics—it was an effort that sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship...
