Kristin OBrassill-Kulfan, "Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic" (NYU Press, 2019)
Kristin O\u2019Brassill-Kulfan is the author of Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic, published by New York University Press in 2019. Vagrants and Vagabonds focuses on the control over poor migrants\u2019 mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States. Examining how local and state government\u2019s criminalized vagrancy, O\u2019Brassill-Kulfan illustrates that the vagrant, whether real of a figment of people\u2019s imaginations, were crucial to the development of the state and ideas about community.\nDr. O\u2019Brassill-Kulfan is an instructor of public history at Rutgers University. She specializes in early American social and legal history, as well as public history.\nDerek Litvak is a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Maryland.\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law