Capital and convict : race, region, and punishment in post-Civil War America / Henry Kamerling.
Series: The American South seriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2017]Description: xi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780813940557 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-295) and index.
Introduction -- Politics -- Politics and race in South Carolina's postwar penitentiary -- Politics and ethnicity in Illinois's postwar penitentiaries -- Politics and capitalism in the penitentiary -- The ideology of rehabilitation in the postwar penitentiary -- Assimilation versus exclusion in the ideology of late nineteenth-century punishment -- Punishment and violence in the penitentiary -- Resistance, assimilation, and convict culture in the penitentiary -- Conclusion.