Author: Nashville (Tenn.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal ordinances
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Compilation of the General Laws of the City of Nashville
Author: Nashville (Tenn.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal ordinances
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Compilation of the Tennessee Statutes of a General Public Nature, in Force on the First Day of January, 1917
Author: TennesseeCatalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressBibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Catalogue of the General and Law Library of the State of Tennessee
Author: Tennessee. State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Maggs BrosCatalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes
Author: Library of CongressBiblioteca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Carceral City
Author: John BardesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469678195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders were deeply reliant on coercive state action. Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit. Indeed, in New Orleans—for most of the past half-century, the city with the highest incarceration rate in the United States—enslaved people were jailed at higher rates during the antebellum era than are Black residents today. Moreover, some slave prisons remained in use well after Emancipation: in these forgotten institutions lie the hidden origins of state violence under Jim Crow. With powerful and evocative prose, Bardes boldly reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history. Racialized policing and mass incarceration are among the gravest moral crises of our age, but they are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance.
Runaway Slaves
Author: John Hope FranklinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199840253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution."