Conclusion. "It was amongst the vagrant class...that cholera was most fatal" : mobility, poverty, and disease -- "A wandering life" : the physical landscape of indigent transiency -- "The removal of so many human beings...like felons" : forced migration of the poor -- "Since he was free" : vagabondage, race, and emancipation -- "Punishment for their misfortunes" : discretion, incarceration, and resistance -- "It was amongst the vagrant class...that cholera was most fatal" : mobility, poverty, and disease -- Conclusion.
Summary:
""Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic" explores the topics of social class and poverty and their implications in the early American republic."--Provided by publisher.
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