It's a commonplace in abolitionist circles that modern policing in the US began with slave patrols. This is true, and the details are fascinating and horrifying.

Sally Hadden's book Slave Patrols is the only monograph on the subject that I'm aware of. Slave patrols were highly localized, so there was a great deal of variation on how they operated. Hadden shows how this diversity of tactics evolving over time led to many of the techniques used by police today.

#SlavePatrols #Slavery #Abolition #SallyHadden #BlackHistoryMonth #USHistory

https://annas-archive.li/md5/aa910cb5e23b2ed9436e74ccea37e95b

Today is #GeneralStrike day!

No working. No buying. Take #action against #ICE.

I'll be making #zines about topics related to ICE. Its #history in #SlavePatrols and the #PalmerRaids, and links to #Israel. People #killed whose #stories are not being told. Effective #DirectAction ideas. And sustaining a #strike long-term.

And I'm making my paid #substack posts #free until Monday.

Policing Has Always Been a Tool to Repress the Working Class

https://murica.website/2025/09/policing-has-always-been-a-tool-to-repress-the-working-class/

https://news.yahoo.com/bystander-chased-shot-black-man-174548272.html

#RentACop: A Georgia jury this week convicted a bystander who chased down a Black man and shot him to death after a 2019 traffic incident

#SlavePatrols #TravonMartin #AhmaudArbery

I don't see nearly enough acknowledgement of the fact that the "well-regulated militias" in the second amendment were slave patrols.

#Slavery #SlavePatrols #ACAB #Abolition #SecondAmendment