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Buried lives : incarcerated in early America

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Contributors: Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-, Bell, Richard, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.
Subjects and Genres:
Prisoners > United States > History.
Prisons > United States > History.
Inmates of institutions > United States > History.
Punishment > United States > History.
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Table of 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".

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