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There’s a review on Monkeyfist.com of Sally E. Hadden’s Slave Patrols: Law and Violencer in Virginia and the Carolinas, in which the political economy of slave patrols is considered, particularly the degree to which White citizens traded civil rights and individual liberties for racialized communal goods:

This contortion of property rights — in which patrollers were […]

A fight over rewriting the Alabama state constitution — as racist a state charter as was ever written — reveals the racial fault lines which run throughout the South. While this Economist article perpetuates the muthos of Old and New South, it’s still a readable, cogent introduction to the issues facing Alabama, a state I’ve […]