Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

by Sally E. Hadden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674012348
• ISBN13: 9780674012349
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"