Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878

(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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807814172

ISBN13:9780807814178

Release Date:January 1980

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:313 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:6.0" x 9.0"

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Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878

(Part of the Studies in Legal History Series)

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