Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226744230ISBN-10:022674423XUPC:9780226744230Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Ethnic Studies, CriminologyBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.23 x 6.33 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCWKJ7H317
An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit. In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226744230ISBN-10:022674423XUPC:9780226744230Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Ethnic Studies, CriminologyBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.23 x 6.33 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCWKJ7H317
Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
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