Review
The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States
The Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol.14(2), pp.259-261
06/01/2024
DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2024.a928949
Abstract
Supreme Court decisions ostensibly not about slavery, such as Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) and the Passenger Cases (1849), raised questions about the future of human bondage by asserting federal commercial and police power. When the federal government asserted in 1884 that national sovereignty permitted it to tax immigrants on arrival, Kenny notes it offered "a virtually identical argument with regard to state power" (207), as South Carolina had six decades earlier when defending the Negro Seamen Acts. The 1846 Supreme Court decision in United States d. Rogers classified Native Americans as racial minorities rather than sovereign nations, bolstering federal power before the Civil War.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- Creators
- Cory Young
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol.14(2), pp.259-261
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill
- DOI
- 10.1353/cwe.2024.a928949
- ISSN
- 2154-4727
- eISSN
- 2159-9807
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2024
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984628238102771
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