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Author Malka, Adam, author.

Title The Men of Mobtown : policing Baltimore in the age of slavery and emancipation / Adam Malka
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Contents I. Mobtown. Rioters and vigilantes -- Policemen and prisons -- II. Black Liberty, White Power. Securing the workplace -- Protecting the household -- Policing the Black criminal -- III. Emancipation and Its Discontents. The rights of men -- The crime of freedom
Summary "The customary story of the rise of modern policing in America is rooted in the growth of northern cities. In this telling, professional police forces arose primarily in reaction to growing urban populations of immigrants and the poor. Meanwhile, scholars of the American South often argue that vigilantes and lynch mobs, as opposed to policemen and prisons, policed the region. Yet these two interrelated systems came to coexist in Baltimore. One system relied upon amateur and ordinary people - mostly white men - to guard the city, enforce its criminal laws, and govern in its name; the other, which emerged in the 1830s and 1840s, employed uniformed policemen to protect property rights and to build disciplinary asylums, reformatories, and prisons for those who infringed upon those rights. ... Adam Malka shows that for much of the nineteenth century these two systems worked in tandem as complementary state institutions designed to protect white men's property rights and power. He argues that the same assumptions of white male supremacy that sustained slavery also laid the foundations for the development of municipal policing and state punishment, resulting in a state-sanctioned form of brutality that prospered ... under the very conditions of freedom that African Americans fought so determinedly to secure"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 8, 2020)
Subject African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century
Racism -- Government policy -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century
Vigilantes -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century
Police -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
African Americans -- Social conditions
Police
Race relations
Racism -- Government policy
Vigilantes
SUBJECT Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Maryland -- Baltimore
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017037708
ISBN 9781469636306
1469636301
9781469636313
146963631X