- 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
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES


Harvard Historical Studies 138
Slave Patrols
Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
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$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95
ISBN 9780674012349
Publication Date: 10/30/2003