Slave Patrols

Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

Sally E. Hadden

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Of Perpetrators and Police

    1. Colonial Beginnings and Experiments

    2. Supervising Patrollers in Town and Country

    3. Patrol Personnel:"They Jes' Like Policemen, Only Worser"

    4. In Times of Tranquility: Everyday Slave Patrols

    5. In Times of Crisis: Patrols during Rebellions and Wars

    6. Patrollers No More: The Civil War Era

    Epilogue: Black Freedom, White Violence: Patrols, Police, and the Klan

    Abbreviations

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

  • Cover: Slave Patrols
  • A photo of the author

Sally E. Hadden is Associate Professor of History and Assisant Professor of Law at Florida State University.