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Abandoned to "causes of corruption" : slave life and policing in the city

"An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society

"The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment

"With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals

The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Virginia > Richmond > History > 19th century.

Enslaved persons > Virginia > Richmond > Social conditions > 19th century.

Freed persons > Virginia > Richmond > Social conditions > 19th century.

Richmond (Va.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.