Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison

How slave rebellions influenced lawmakers as they shaped the legal traditions that led to the modern prison

The violence of American slavery is often remembered for its excesses. Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison adds a more chilling dimension, revealing how the violence of slavery was often deliberate, calculated, and lawful. From Barbadian sugar plantations in the seventeenth century to the South Carolina Penitentiary at the turn of the twentieth, state officials wrote ...