The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America

The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America

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Author/Contributor(s): Graber, Jennifer
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Date: 12/01/2014
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Focusing 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.