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Article: Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform. By Clayton E. Cramer. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 1999. Pp. x, 180. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-96615-1.)
Why did the slave states take an early lead in enacting laws governing the carrying of concealed weapons? In Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic Clayton E. Cramer purports to answer this question. He examines a number of theories, beginning with the obvious contention that the white population in the southern states used concealed weapon laws to maintain social control over free blacks. The author discards this proposition on the grounds that many of the ...