Slave-code policing carried over into independent US state law

Evidence

These oppressive laws did not cease after the collapse of British rule. Instead, government policing of Black communities, free and enslaved, persisted throughout the American Revolution, and became state law once the United States gained its independence. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 362

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s ‘deviation vs design’ test: the US dates itself from the Revolution, yet colonial policing law persisted seamlessly across that break — evidence that the founding didn’t reset racial governance. — connects to: State and local administrative agencies long preceded the federal ICC — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2535