Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850

<p>My dissertation examines the presence of enslaved prisoners in local jails and workhouses of antebellum South Carolina from 1730-1850 with a particular focus on the 1790s as a transformative period. Those sites expose the close relationship between governmental authority and the discipline...

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Main Author: Smalls, Samanthis
Other Authors: Edwards, Laura
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/11394