Slave patrols : law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hadden, Sally E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Colección:Harvard historical studies ; v. 138.
Temas:
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.
Esclaves > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Lois > Application > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Police > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Violence > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs américains > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > General.
African Americans
Law enforcement
Police
Race relations
Enslaved persons > Government policy
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Violence
Slaven (arbeid)
Rechtshandhaving.
Politie.
Virginia > Race relations.
North Carolina > Race relations.
South Carolina > Race relations.
Virginie > Relations raciales.
Caroline du Nord > Relations raciales.
Caroline du Sud > Relations raciales.
North Carolina
South Carolina
Southern States
Virginia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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