Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80

by Christopher Waldrep

Every white southerner understood
what keeping African Americans "down" meant and what it did
not mean. It did not mean going to court; it did not mean relying on the
law. It meant vigilante violence and lynching.
Looking at Vicksburg, Mississippi,
Roots of Disorder traces the origins of these terrible attitudes
to the day-to-day operations of local courts. In Vicksburg, white exploitation
of black labor through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252067320
• ISBN13: 9780252067327
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"