Slavery and the Origins of the American Police State
From the beginning, some Americans have been able to move more freely than others
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19 min readSep 17, 2018
They were called patrollers or, variously, “paterollers,” “paddyrollers,” or “patterolls,” and they were meant to be part of the solution to Colonial America’s biggest problem, labor. Unlike Great Britain, which had a large, basically…
