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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Notes from the Author: Crime and Black Women’s History 1
5. 1. Of Law and Virtue: Black Women in Slavery, Freedom, and Early Criminal Justice 13
6. 2. Service Savors of Slavery: Labor, Autonomy, and Turn-of-the-Century Urban Crime 39
7. 3. Tricking the Tricks: Violence and Vice among Black Female Criminals 72
8. 4. Roughneck Women, Pale Representations, and Dark Crimes: Black Female Criminals and Popular Culture 101
9. 5. Deviant by Design: Race, Degeneracy, and the Science of Penology 127
10. Conclusion. ‘‘She was Born in this Prison’’: Black Female Crime, Past and Present 150
11. Appendix 157
12. Abbreviations and Notes on Sources 167
13. Notes 171
14. Bibliography 231
15. Index 251