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Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of overlooked arrest and prison records, John Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates.

The Carceral City

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    A Paperback by John Bardes

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      Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
      Published 1 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781469678184
      978-1469678184
      ISBN-10 1469678187
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      Book Synopsis
      Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of overlooked arrest and prison records, John Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates.

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