Vagrancy Laws in the 1860s: Who Were Targeted and Why?
Introduction In the tumultuous decade of the 1860s, a period marked by profound social upheaval and economic transformation, the United States, alongside other nations, grappled with the challenges of rapid change. Amidst the ashes of war and the dawn of industrialization, governments enacted laws designed to regulate and control the populace. Among these, vagrancy laws … Read more
