The Furnace of Affliction
Prisons & Religion in Antebellum America
By Jennifer Graber
(University of North Carolina Press, Hardcover, 9780807834572, 234pp.)
Publication Date: March 2011
Categories: Penology, United States - 19th Century
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Description
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 through the 1850s.
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