Henry Kamerling: 1 book
Capital and Convict
Race, Region, and Punishment in Post–Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South’s post Civil War embrace of chain...
