Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas: v. 138 (Harvard Historical Studies) - Hardcover

Hadden, Sally E.

 
9780674004702: Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas: v. 138 (Harvard Historical Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674004701 ISBN 13: 9780674004702
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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 17th century through the end of the Civil War. 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.

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Críticas

Hadden offers insights into a part of U.S. history that has been little studied, despite the fact that it is an integral fact of that history...[Slave] patrols became part of the violent force used to react to slave revolts, the threat of such revolts, and runaways. Despite the bravado attached to their image, slave patrols were "an unequivocal manifestation of white fear."--Vanessa Bush"Booklist" (02/01/2001)

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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 17th century through the end of the Civil War. 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.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674004701
ISBN 13 
9780674004702
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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