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The furnace of affliction [electronic resource] : prisons & religion in antebellum America / Jennifer Graber.

By: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807877838
  • 0807877832
  • 9781469603339
  • 1469603330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Furnace of affliction.DDC classification:
  • 365/.665097309034 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8865 .G73 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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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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