Slave Patrols Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

Name: Slave Patrols Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
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ISBN: 9780674012349

ISBN-10: 0674012348

ISBN-13: 9780674012349

Edition: 2001

Authors: Sally E. Hadden

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Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the 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. Mining a variety of sources, Sally Hadden presents the views of both patrollers and slaves as she depicts the patrols, composed of "respectable" members of society as well as poor whites, often mounted and armed…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index