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The Politics of Black Citizenship - Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 (Paperback)
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The Politics of Black Citizenship - Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 (Paperback)
Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
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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. In the early nineteenth century, Baltimore and
Philadelphia contained the largest two free black populations in
the country, separated by a mere hundred miles. The counties that
lie between them also contained large and vibrant freeblack
populations in this period. In 1780, Pennsylvania had begun the
process of outlawing slavery, while Maryland would cling
desperately to the institution until the Civil War, and so these
were also cities separated by the legal boundary between freedom
and slavery. Despite the fact that slavery thrived in parts of the
state of Maryland, in Baltimore the free black population
outnumbered the enslaved so that on the eve of the Civil War there
were ten times as many free blacks in the city of Baltimore as
there were slaves. In this book Andrew Diemer examines the diverse
tactics that free blacks employed in defense of their
liberties-including violence and the building of autonomous black
institutions-as well as African Americans' familiarity with the
public policy and political struggles that helped shape those
freedoms in the first place.
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