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- Title
Neither Slave nor Free: Black Jail Debt Peonage in Antebellum Virginia, 1841-1846.
- Authors
WHITE GIBSON, AMANDA
- Abstract
The article examines the legal and historical origins of black jail debt peonage, which emerged in the aftermath of the Nat Turner rebellion in 1831, when Virginia enacted stricter laws to control and punish African American population. Topics discussed include difference between debt peonage and enslavement, a quantitative analysis of the Richmond city sergeant jail register from 1841 to 1846, and background on the practice of hiring out free Black Virginians to pay a jail debt.
- Subjects
RICHMOND (Va.); PEONAGE; SLAVERY; TURNER, Nat, ca. 1800-1831; AFRICAN American social conditions; JAILS
- Publication
Journal of Southern History, 2023, Vol 89, Issue 4, p629
- ISSN
0022-4642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/soh.2023.a909846