Bøger af Andrew K. Diemer

"The ... story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--

Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, this book shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics - it was an effort to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiate the complex politics in which that concept was determined.