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Liberty's prisoners carceral culture in early America /

Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary system was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, during a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution&#...

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Main Author: Manion, Jen, 1974-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Physical Description: 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Early American studies.
Subjects:
Imprisonment -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
Imprisonment -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
Prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Women prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
Women prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Punishment -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
Punishment -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Social control -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
Social control -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Sex customs -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
Sex customs -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.

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