Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-330) and index.
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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.
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Hadden examines the patrols, the most frequent enforcers of the laws involving slaves, and how they influenced race relations and the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.
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Slave patrols.
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Slave patrols.
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African Americans-- Southern States-- History.
Law enforcement-- Southern States-- History.
Police patrol-- Southern States-- History.
Police-- Southern States-- History.
Slaves-- Government policy-- Southern States-- History.