Capital and convict : race, region, and punishment in post-Civil War America

Capital and convict : race, region, and punishment in post-Civil War America /

The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as central--if not more so--in shaping the realities of crime an...

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Main Author: Kamerling, Henry, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017
Series:American South series.
Subjects:
Punishment > Illinois > History > 19th century.
Punishment > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
African American prisoners > Illinois > History > 19th century.
African American prisoners > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Prison administration > Illinois > History > 19th century.
Prison administration > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > History > 1865-1898.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Politics
  • Politics and race in South Carolina's postwar penitentiary
  • Politics and ethnicity in Illinois's postwar penitentiaries
  • Politics and capitalism in the penitentiary
  • The ideology of rehabilitation in the postwar penitentiary
  • Assimilation versus exclusion in the ideology of late nineteenth-century punishment
  • Punishment and violence in the penitentiary
  • Resistance, assimilation, and convict culture in the penitentiary
  • Conclusion.

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