Abstract
This study concentrates solely on the court records dating from 1830 to 1899, comprising 4,740 individual cases. The date range covers local population shifts and larger historical events such as the Institution of Slavery, the American Civil War, and the rise of Jim Crow in the American South. Mississippi became a state in 1817 (Ownby, 2017, Mississippi Statehood). In 1830, Lowndes County formed out of Monroe County (Ownby, 2017, Lowndes County). At that time, the total population of the county was 3,173. A decade later, the population jumped over 357 percent to include 14,513 people. The number continued to rise every decade and peaked at 30,502 people by 1870. It was in the 1880s that it took its first dip down by roughly seven percent to land at 28,244 persons. It concluded the nineteenth century with a seven percent increase, settling at 29,905 individuals ("Lowndes," 2025).
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Mona Vance-Ali
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"Disobedient Women: A Quantitative Analysis of Females in the Lowndes County, Mississippi Circuit Court Felony Criminal Cases housed at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System Billups-Garth Archival Room, 1830-1899,"
SLIS Connecting: Vol. 13:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
DOI: 10.18785/slis.1301.09
Available at:
https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol13/iss1/9
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