Vagrants and Vagabonds : : Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic / / Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan.
The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States Vagrants. Vagabonds. Hoboes. Identified by myriad names, the homeless and geographically mobile have been with us since the earliest periods o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Places ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 “She Is Doubtless a Very Vagrant”: Poverty and Mobility on the Legal Landscape
- 2 “A Wandering Life”: The Physical Landscape of Indigent Transiency
- 3 “The Removal of So Many Human Beings . . . Like Felons”: Forced Migration of the Poor
- 4 “Since He Was Free”: Vagabondage, Race, and Emancipation
- 5 “Punishment for Their Misfortunes”: Discretion, Incarceration, and Resistance
- 6 “It Was amongst the Vagrant Class . . . That Cholera Was Most Fatal”: Mobility, Poverty, and Disease
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author