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title	:	A Rogue's Paradise : Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861
author	:	Denham, James M.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0817308474
print isbn13	:	9780817308476
ebook isbn13	:	9780585215426
language	:	English
subject	Crime--Florida--History--19th century, Criminal justice, Administration of--Florida--History--19th century, Florida--History--1821-1865.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	HV6793.F6D46 1997eb
ddc	:	364.9759/09/034
subject	:	Crime--Florida--History--19th century, Criminal justice, Administration of--Florida--History--19th century, Florida--History--1821-1865.

Page iii "A Rogue's Paradise" Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 18211861 James M. Denham The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London

Page iv Copyright 1997 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 34587-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Denham, James M. "A rogue's paradise" : crime and punishment in Antebellum Florida, 18211861 / James M. Denham. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8173-0847-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. CrimeFloridaHistory19th century. 2. Criminal justice, Administration ofFloridaHistory19th century. 3. Florida History18211865. I. Title. HV6793.F6D46 1997 364.9759'09'034dc20 96-24837 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available

Page v For Jim Denham and in memory of Emma Denham

Page vii Contents Preface ix One Crime, the Law, and Society 1 Two Crime and Its Causes 12 Three Courts, Judges, and Law Enforcement Officers 24 Four Receptacles of Crime: Florida's Judicial Circuits 37 Five Crime against Person 59 Six Violating the Domestic Sphere: Women, Violence, and Crime 74 Seven Crime against Property 86 Eight Crime against Public Order and Morality 102 Nine Blacks, Crime, and the Law 120 Ten Florida's Antebellum Lawmen 141

Page viii Eleven Catching Criminals on the Antebellum Frontier 155 Twelve Jails and Escapes 166 Thirteen Outlaw Gangs, Lynch Mobs, and Regulators: Policing the Antebellum Frontier 185 Fourteen Our Violent Past: A Heritage of Honor and Frontier 205 Appendix 1 Legal and Extralegal Executions 209 Appendix 2 County Seats and Superior/Circuit Courts 212 Appendix 3 Law and Judicial Officers 214 Appendix 4 Prosecution Tables by County 226 Notes 283 Bibliography 339 Index 371

Page ix Preface This book traces the patterns of crime and punishment in antebellum Florida from 1821 to 1861. The manner in which each criminal was captured, tried, and incarcerated offers vital ingredients to this story. Crimes are categorized as crimes against person, crimes against property, and crimes against public order and morality. This work also examines collective criminal behavior (outlaw gangs); evaluates the criminal jurisdiction of the courts; explores the duties and responsibilities of law enforcement officials; details the catching of criminals; records jail conditions and escapes; and analyzes patterns of punishment (both legal and extralegal). Finally, this study also explores how crime affected ordinary Floridianswhites and blacks, perpetrators, victims, and enforcersand the world they lived in. The territory and state developed a criminal justice system that, by more enlightened twentieth-century standards, might seem primitive and even haphazard. Insufficient funding, a sometimes ambivalent general public, and always a sparsely settled, dangerous frontier that made travel difficult and frequently impossiblethese often thwarted the system. And yet it functioned surprisingly well through the persistent efforts of judges, sheriffs, and various other lawmen.

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