Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a
critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book
completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins,
the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the
Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the
Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and
state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing
slaves throughout the South.
Mining a variety of sources, Sally Hadden presents the views of
both patrollers and slaves as she depicts the patrols, composed of
"respectable" members of society as well as poor whites, often
mounted and armed with whips and guns, exerting a brutal and
archaic brand of racial control inextricably linked to post-Civil
War vigilantism and the Ku Klux Klan. City councils also used
patrollers before the war, and police forces afterward, to impose
their version of race relations across the South, making the entire
region, not just plantations, an armed camp where slave workers
were controlled through terror and brutality.
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