RT Book
T1 The carceral city: slavery and the making of mass incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
A1 Bardes, John K.
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB The University of North Carolina Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1871520452
AB "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 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 incarcerated 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 these crises are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9481.N33
SN 9781469678177
SN 9781469678184
K1 Imprisonment : Louisiana : New Orleans : History
K1 Prisons : Louisiana : New Orleans : History
K1 Mass incarceration : Louisiana : New Orleans : History
K1 Slavery : Louisiana : New Orleans : History
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Louisiana : New Orleans : History
K1 Discrimination in criminal justice administration : Louisiana : New Orleans : History
K1 HISTORY / African American & Black
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
K1 New Orleans (La.) : Race relations