Slave Patrols

Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

Bibliographic Data

ID9292187
AuthorsSally E Hadden, Sally Hadden (0000-0002-3314-0136, corresponding author)
Year2003
Pages360
Publication date2003-10-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSlave Patrols (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHarvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv1g809mv
OpenAlexW4247919446
Open LibraryOL6793796M
ISBN9780674258013
LanguageEN
Citations received165

"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 of 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 with whips and guns, exerting a brutal and archaic brand of racial control inextricably linked to post-Civil War vigilantism and the Ku Klux Klan. City councils also used patrollers before the war, and police forces afterward, to impose their version of race relations across the South, making the entire region, not just plantations, an armed camp where slave workers were controlled through terror and brutality."--BOOK JACKET

Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · African americans · Application · Esclaves · Government policy · History · Law Enforcement · Lois · Noirs américains · North Carolina · Police · Police patrol · Politie · race relations · Rechtshandhaving · Relations raciales · Slaven (arbeid) · Slaves · Social conditions · South Carolina · Southern states · united states · Violence · Virginia