The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

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The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic is written by Kevin Kenny and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197580084 (ISBN 10) and 9780197580080 (ISBN 13).

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 policy, applying the policies of border control and deportation to different racial groups that continue to generate tensions between state and federal authority to the present day.