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Buried lives : incarcerated in early America / edited by Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell.
Van Pelt Library HV9466 .B847 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--United States--History.
- Prisoners.
- Prisons--United States--History.
- Prisons.
- Inmates of institutions--United States--History.
- Inmates of institutions.
- Punishment--United States--History.
- Punishment.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Tarter (English, College of New Jersey) and Bell (history, U. of Maryland-College Park) unite contributors in history and literature in this collection of 10 essays on imprisonment in jails, penitentiaries, and prison ships, as well as almshouses, workhouses, and plantations, in the early years of the US. The essays emphasize the mediations surrounding incarceration and the possibilities of reversals within incarceration settings. Some specific topics discussed include the Antigua slave conspiracy investigation of 1736, women with venereal disease in the Philadelphia Almshouse, slaves in jail in antebellum America, literacy in an era of disciplinary spectacle, and Eastern State Penitentiary and the birth of prison literature. The book includes b&w historical illustrations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 1: Brokering power behind bars
- Hearing whispers, casting shadows
- Incarcerated innocents
- "Those indolent hardened husseys go on dispensing all rule & order here"
- "Hopelessly hardened"
- Universities of social and political change
- 2: Writing the carceral experience
- Reading prisoners on the scaffold
- Floating prisons
- "The horrors of this far-famed penitentiary"
- Harry Hawser's fate
- "The floor was stained with the blood of a slave".
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780820341194
- 0820341193
- 9780820341200
- 0820341207
- OCLC:
- 744560368
- Publisher Number:
- 99948032284
- 40020695903
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