+"The EMPLOYMENTOF African Americans IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, 1803-1865," examines pertinent primary source and secondary data on police, justices of the peace, and militia duties entrusted to African Americans in Louisiana and in selected Northern states before the Civil War and during the Civil War.
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In addition, the book discusses African American\'s little known criminal justice appointments in the plantation regimes, their military police work, and spying missions. +"The EMPLOYMENTOF African Americans IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, 1803-1865," examines pertinent primary source and secondary data on police, justices of the peace, and militia duties entrusted to African Americans in Louisiana and in selected Northern states before the Civil War and during the Civil War