| The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863 Subjects: Free African Americans -- Civil rights -- Atlantic Coast (Middle Atlantic States) -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century; Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphi; 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. 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. |