Examines the history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, demonstrating the surprising connection between these laws and efforts to suppress dueling in the southern back country.
What Is the Mystery? Social Control of Free Blacks The Back-Country Culture of Violence Kentucky Louisiana Indiana Arkansas Georgia Tennessee Virginia Alabama "That Dog Won't Hunt" Reform from the Top Down Appendix A: Text of the Laws Appendix B: Limitations of Sources Index
CLAYTON E. CRAMER works as a software engineer for a Northern California telecommunications equipment manufacturer. He has published extensively in the areas of American history and criminology. His previous publications include Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860 (Greenwood, 1997) and For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Praeger, 1994).
?Concealed Weapon Laws makes for interesting reading for anyone
interested in political history of the US during the early to mid
19th century.?-Smoke & Fire News
?Cramer has fashioned fairly solid explanation of the purpose of
the earliest law...of concealed weapons.?-Florida Historical
Quarterly
"Cramer has fashioned fairly solid explanation of the purpose of
the earliest law...of concealed weapons."-Florida Historical
Quarterly
"Concealed Weapon Laws makes for interesting reading for anyone
interested in political history of the US during the early to mid
19th century."-Smoke & Fire News
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