Slave Patrols

Autorentext

Sally E. Hadden is Associate Professor of History and Assisant Professor of Law at Florida State University.

Klappentext

This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, nature, and extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South.

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Acknowledgments 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 Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index