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Slave patrols, law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Sally E. Hadden

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Slave patrols, law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Sally E. Hadden

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-330) and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slave patrols

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

44860794

Responsibility statement

Sally E. Hadden

Series statement

Harvard historical studies, v. 138

Sub title

law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Of Perpetrators and Police -- 1. Colonial Beginnings and Experiments -- 2. Supervising Patrollers in Town and Country -- 3. Patrol Personnel: "They Jes' Like Policemen, Only Worser" -- 4. In Times of Tranquility: Everyday Slave Patrols -- 5. In Times of Crisis: Patrols during Rebellions and Wars -- 6. Patrollers No More: The Civil War Era -- Epilogue: Black Freedom, White Violence: Patrols, Police, and the Klan

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