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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American South series.
Main Author: Kamerling, Henry, 1967- (Author)
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.
African American prisoners.
Prison administration.
Punishment.
Race relations.
Illinois.
South Carolina.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Politics. Politics and race in South Carolina's postwar penitentiary
  • Politics and ethnicity in Illinois's postwar penitentiaries
  • Politics and capitalism in the penitentiary
  • II. Ideology. The ideology of rehabilitation in the postwar penitentiary
  • Assimilation versus exclusion in the ideology of late nineteenth-century punishment
  • III. Culture. Punishment and violence in the penitentiary
  • Resistance, assimilation, and convict culture in the penitentiary
  • Conclusion.