Buried lives : incarcerated in early America edited by Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-

Bell, Richard, 1978-

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.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

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.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: Benjamin, Evans, "Stone Prison S.W. Corner 3rd & Market St., 1723," (Bb 862 Ev. 15, No. 20, p.13).

ISBN:

9780820341194 (cloth : alk. paper)

0820341193 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780820341200 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0820341207 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

744560368