The Carceral City. Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930, Paperback/John Bardes

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. Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Author(s): John Bardes Illustration(s): 12 halftones, 1 maps, 17 graphs Number of pages: 428 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 28 Cover type: Paperback / softback