Colored amazons: crime, violence, and black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

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