Prison and Plantation : Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878 PDF
by Michael S. Hindus
Part of the Studies in Legal History series
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This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of informal and extralegal authority while South Carolina--a rural southern slave state--systematically reduced its formal legal institutions, frequently relying on vigilantism.
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- Publication Date:01/11/2017
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:313 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2017
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- ISBN:9798890874771
