Twice condemned : slaves and the criminal laws of Virginia, 1705-1865.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

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Slavery -- Virginia (Colony)

Criminal law -- History -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- Virginia (Colony)

Part 1 The Slave Code and the Slave Courts

Introduction

1. The shape of the shackles

2. slaves and crime: A problem of evidence

Part II 1619 to 1784

Introduction

3. Years of Adjustment, 1619-1739

4. Poisoning in an early American slave society

5. Property against property

6. Shattering confrontations, 1740-1785

7. Two revolutions

Part III 1785 to 1865

Introduction

8. The internal enemy

9. Deadly relationships

10. Authorities and banditti

11. The end of slave crime

Conclusion.

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