JAMES CAMPBELL is Lecturer in American History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia and the co-editor (with Rebecca Griffin) of Reconstruction: People and Perspectives.

• IntroductionPART I: SLAVERY TO FREEDOMSlave Resistance, Crime and ControlSlavery and Criminal Justice Before the Civil WarReconstructionPART II: JIM CROW JUSTICEThe State and the Mob: Lynching, Criminal Justice and the Death PenaltyPunishment and Labour: Convict Leasing, Chain Gangs and PeonageResisting Jim Crow JusticePART III: FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO THE PRESENTCriminal Justice and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1972The Modern Penal StateEpilogue: Politics, Memory and Justice in Modern AmericaFurther Reading.