The Politics of Black Citizenship - Free African Americans in the Mid-atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863

Informationen zum Autor ANDREW K. DIEMER is assistant professor of history at Towson University. His work has been published in the Journal of Military History, Slavery and Abolition , and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Klappentext 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 and negotiate the complex national! state! and local politics in which that concept was determined. Zusammenfassung Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of the Mid-Atlantic borderland! Diemer shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics as it exploited the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiated the complex national! state! and local politics in which that concept was determined.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Diemer, Andrew K Diemer, Andrew K. Diemer, Andrew/ Newman Diemer
• Assisted by: Richard Newman (Editor), Patrick Rael (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780820349374
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4937-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Afrikanische Geschichte, USA Nordosten, Mid-Atlantic States, HISTORY / African American, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century