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Text of a talk on the origins of the police in England, the American South and the North. The Ind... more Text of a talk on the origins of the police in England, the American South and the North. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to a growing class of wage laborers (including wage-earning slaves in the South) that posed a collective threat to the property-owning classes. Police were invented to deal with large, defiant crowds of workers—and only secondarily to deal with crime.

Text of a talk on the origins of the police in England, the American South and the North. The Ind... more Text of a talk on the origins of the police in England, the American South and the North. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to a growing class of wage laborers (including wage-earning slaves in the South) that posed a collective threat to the property-owning classes. Police were invented to deal with large, defiant crowds of workers—and only secondarily to deal with crime.

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