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Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America
Contributor(s): Bell, Richard (Author), Tarter, Michele Lise (Editor), Bell, Richard (Editor)
ISBN: 0820341207     ISBN-13: 9780820341200
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.10  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - General
- Social Science | Penology
- History | Social History
Dewey: 365.973
LCCN: 2011030205
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 320 pages
 
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Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation. The historians and literary scholars included in this volume offer a complement and corrective to conventional understandings of incarceration that privilege the intentions of those in power over the experiences of prisoners.

Considering such varied settings as jails, penitentiaries, almshouses, workhouses, floating prison ships, and plantations, the contributors reconstruct the struggles of people imprisoned in locations from Antigua to Boston. The essays draw upon a rich array of archival sources from the seventeenth century to the eve of the Civil War, including warden logs, petitions, execution sermons, physicians' clinical notes, private letters, newspaper articles, runaway slave advertisements, and legal documents. Through the voices, bodies, and texts of the incarcerated, Buried Lives reveals the largely ignored experiences of inmates who contested their subjection to regimes of power.

Contributor Bio(s): Tarter, Michele Lise: - MICHELE LISE TARTER is an associate professor of English at the College of New Jersey. She is coeditor of A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America.Bell, Richard: - Richard Bell is an assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States.O'Donovan, Susan Eva: -

SUSAN EVA O'DONOVAN is an associate
professor of history at the University of Memphis, and author of two volumes in the
series Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (UNC Press, 2008,
2013), and Becoming Free in the Cotton South (Harvard University Press, 2007) as part of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. She is the co-director of the Memphis Massacre Project, a public commemoration of Reconstruction.

Williams, Daniel E.: - DANIEL E. WILLIAMS is a professor of English at Texas Christian University. He has also edited an anthology of early American criminal narratives, Pillars of Salt.