The furnace of affliction prisons & religion in antebellum America / Jennifer Graber.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [(c)2011.]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780807877838
- 0807877832
- 9781469603339
- 1469603330
- HV8865
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | HV8865 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn712775202 |
Includes bibliographies 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.
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