Liberty's prisoners : carceral culture in early America

Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary system was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, during a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution&#...

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Main Author: Manion, Jen, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Early American studies
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Call Number: HV 9955 .P4 M36 2015
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