Andrew Diemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Diemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Diemer |
| SIGNATURE | DIEMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction
Long after the states of the North came to think of themselves as “free,” forms of enslavement persisted. “Free state slavery” continued to hold Black Northerners in bondage, sometimes using the laws of ostensibly free states, or of the federal government, and sometimes operating outside the law. This slavery was always contested, however, most often by African Americans themselves, but also with the help of white allies
Abolitionist Twilights
Van Gosse. The First Reconstruction
Journal Article Van Gosse. The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Get access Van Gosse. The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 745. Paper $29.95. Andrew Diemer Andrew Diemer Towson University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
A Brotherhood of Liberty
Reviewed by: A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865–1920 by Dennis Patrick Halpin Andrew Diemer (bio) A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865–1920. By Dennis Patrick Halpin. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 248. Cloth $39.95.) In the fall of 1864, voters in the state of Maryland ratified, by a slim margin, a new constitution that, amon…
Carrie Hyde. Civic Longing
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Book Review| July 01 2016 Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850 Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850. By Jenna M. Gibbs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 328 pp. Photos. $55 (cloth). Andrew Diemer Andrew Diemer Towson University Andrew Diemer is Assistant Professor in the Department o…
The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause
This book examines the political and legal struggles provoked by efforts at various levels of government to manage the growing number of immigrants to the United States during the decades before the Civil War. It considers the background to, the struggle over, and the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Norris v. the City of Boston and Smith v. Turner, collectively known as the Passenger Cases (1849). The antebellum politics of i…
An African Republic
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia, by Marie Tyler-Mcgraw, Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007, 264 pp., ISBN 978-0-8078-3167-0 (clot...
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An African Republic
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia, by Marie Tyler-Mcgraw, Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007, 264 pp., ISBN 978-0-8078-3167-0 (clot...
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Book Review| July 01 2016 Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850 Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850. By Jenna M. Gibbs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 328 pp. Photos. $55 (cloth). Andrew Diemer Andrew Diemer Towson University Andrew Diemer is Assistant Professor in the Department o…
The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause
This book examines the political and legal struggles provoked by efforts at various levels of government to manage the growing number of immigrants to the United States during the decades before the Civil War. It considers the background to, the struggle over, and the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Norris v. the City of Boston and Smith v. Turner, collectively known as the Passenger Cases (1849). The antebellum politics of i…
Carrie Hyde. Civic Longing
A Brotherhood of Liberty
Reviewed by: A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865–1920 by Dennis Patrick Halpin Andrew Diemer (bio) A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865–1920. By Dennis Patrick Halpin. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 248. Cloth $39.95.) In the fall of 1864, voters in the state of Maryland ratified, by a slim margin, a new constitution that, amon…
Abolitionist Twilights
Van Gosse. The First Reconstruction
Journal Article Van Gosse. The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Get access Van Gosse. The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 745. Paper $29.95. Andrew Diemer Andrew Diemer Towson University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Introduction
Long after the states of the North came to think of themselves as “free,” forms of enslavement persisted. “Free state slavery” continued to hold Black Northerners in bondage, sometimes using the laws of ostensibly free states, or of the federal government, and sometimes operating outside the law. This slavery was always contested, however, most often by African Americans themselves, but also with the help of white allies
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works)