The furnace of affliction: prisons & religion in antebellum America
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Main Author: Graber, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index
The prison as garden, 1796-1804 -- The furnace of affliction, 1805-1823 -- The furnace at Auburn, 1816-1827 -- The furnace at Sing Sing, 1828-1839 -- The furnace transformed, 1840-1847 -- The prison as hell, 1848-1860
Focused on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s to the 1850s
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 234 p.)
ISBN:0807834572
0807877832
1469603330
9780807834572
9780807877838
9781469603339

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