Title Slave patrols : law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas / Sally E. Hadden

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Harvard historical studies ; v. 138 Harvard historical studies ; v. 138. Contents Introduction: Of perpetrators and police -- Colonial beginnings and experiments -- Supervising patrollers in town and country -- Patrol personnel : "they jes' like policemen, only worser" -- In times of tranquility : everyday slave patrols -- In times of crisis : patrols during rebellions and wars -- Patrollers no more : the Civil War era -- Epilogue: Black freedom, white violence : patrols, police, and the Klan Summary Hadden examines the patrols, the most frequent enforcers of the laws involving slaves, and how they influenced race relations and the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-330) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Enslaved persons -- Government policy -- Southern States -- History Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions Law enforcement -- Southern States -- History Police -- Southern States -- History Violence -- Southern States -- History African Americans -- Southern States -- History HISTORY -- United States -- General. African Americans. Law enforcement. Police. Race relations. Enslaved persons -- Government policy. Enslaved persons -- Social conditions. Violence. Slaven (arbeid) Rechtshandhaving. Politie. SUBJECT Virginia -- Race relations North Carolina -- Race relations South Carolina -- Race relations Subject North Carolina. South Carolina. Southern States. Virginia. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674258013 0674258010

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