The furnace of affliction
Subtitle: prisons & religion in antebellum America
By: Jennifer Graber
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780807834572; 9780807877838
Subjects: Protestantism; Religious life; Corrections; Prisoners; Religious work with prisoners; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The prison as garden, 1796-1804; title: The furnace of affliction, 1805-1823; title: The furnace at Auburn, 1816-1827; title: The furnace at Sing Sing, 1828-1839; title: The furnace transformed, 1840-1847; title: The prison as hell, 1848-1860; title: Epilogue.