Roots of disorder
Subtitle: race and criminal justice in the American South, 1817-80
By: Christopher Waldrep.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Mississippi -- Warren County -- History.; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Mississippi -- Warren County -- History.; African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mississippi -- Warren County -- History.; Warren County (Miss.) -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: The setting; title: Law and mob law; title: The public good and due process; title: Into the heart of darkness: the Civil War; title: Presidential reconstruction; title: Republican reconstruction; title: A white republic.