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The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 by John Bardes

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

John Bardes

428 pages missing pub info (view editions)

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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...

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