'Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe' Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815.

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Of First Principles & Organic Laws

This dissertation is a social history of indigent transiency, written using the records of criminal justice systems and poor relief infrastructure in order to examine the lives, experiences, and socio-political significance of vagrants and pauper migrants in the Mid-Atlantic between 1816 and 1850. It examines the causes for and consequences of illicit mobilities in this period, and argues that the policing of vagrancy and pauper mobility demonstrate key interpretations of the role of the state in defining and regulating class. It is the first study to link conceptually indigent transiency with the policing of vagrancy, limitations on the movement of African Americans, forced transportation of the wandering poor, and management of the spread of disease in this period.
This study follows the vagrants and pauper migrants whose geographical movements were at odds with settlement laws, state constitutions, and welfare policies. It charts how the itinerant poor were forcibly transported to places deemed by the state to be their legal settlement through the process of pauper removal long after most historians acknowledge removal to have ended. It also considers the ways in which fugitive slaves and runaway servants experienced a transition from the oppression of an unfree labour status to the oppression of poverty after participating in illicit forms of mobility.
This dissertation advances one central argument: that indigent transiency, in its many shapes and through the varied forms of its management, contributed significantly to contemporary understandings of citizenship, community, labour status, freedom of movement, the spread of disease, and the transformation of punishment in the early American republic. It proposes that indigent transiency was among the most important factors in determining how the poor lived, interacted with, and were viewed by local and state governments and their representatives, both under the law and by law enforcement, in this period.

Illicit Mobilities and Wandering Lives: Indigent Transiency in the Mid-Atlantic, 1816-1850

Who Should Die?: The Evolution of Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania, 1681-1794

The poor at birth: Birth weights and infant mortality at Philadelphia's almshouse hospital, 1848–1873

Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Short Titles and Symbols Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 "We Are No Longer United States": Looking to the Convention Chapter 5 "The Collective Wisdom of the Continent": The Convention Opens Chapter 6 "We Expect Something Great": Projecting the Image of Unity Chapter 7 "Prepared To Receive With Respect": Selling the Unknown Chapter 8 "An Opposition Will Shew Itself": Anticipating the Constitution Chapter 9 Conclusion Chapter 10 Appendix 1: Short Title List for Newspapers and Magazines, 1787 Chapter 11 Appendix 2: Note on Methodology Chapter 12 Index

The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History of News Coverage

Chapter 1: The Failure of Promise Chapter 2: The People Shall Be Heard Chapter 3: The Lurking Serpent Chapter 4: The Politics of Principle Chapter 5: The Chief Incendiary Chapter 6: The Helmsman of American Independence Chapter 7: "Zealous in the Great Cause": Winning Independence Chapter 8: "The Principles of Liberty": The Massachusetts Scene Chapter 9: "The Consistent Republican" Epilogue: "The Patriarch of Liberty"

Samuel Adams : America's revolutionary politician

Philadelphia, 1776-2076 : a three hundred year view

Preface Chapter 1: The Failure of Promise Chapter 2: The People Shall Be Heard Chapter 3: The Lurking Serpent Chapter 4: The Politics of Principle Chapter 5: The Great Incendiary Confronts the Quiet Period Chapter 6: Britain Miscalculates and the Great Incendiary Strikes Chapter 7: The Helmsman of American Independence Chapter 8: "Zealous in the Great Cause": Winning Independence Chapter 9: "The Principles of Liberty": The Massachusetts Scene Chapter 10: "An Idolator of Republicanism" and the Nation's Constitution Chapter 11: "The Consistent Republican" in the Turbulent 1790s Epilogue Bibliography

John K. Alexander

Papers

Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800

The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History of News Coverage

Samuel Adams : America's revolutionary politician

Philadelphia, 1776-2076 : a three hundred year view

Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary