The carceral city: slavery and the making of mass incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

"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...

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Main Author: Bardes, John K. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 21 A 3785
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