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Book The Life of Thomas Eddy

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Thomas Eddy  Etc   With a Portrait

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy Etc With a Portrait written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Thomas Eddy

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  • Author : Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1834
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Rev  Thomas M  Eddy  D D

Download or read book The Life of Rev Thomas M Eddy D D written by Charles N. Sims and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Thomas Eddy

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Thomas Eddy

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  • Author : Samuel L. Knapp
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-03
  • ISBN : 9781498005609
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy written by Samuel L. Knapp and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1836 Edition. Comprising An Extensive Correspondence With Many Of The Most Distinguished Philosophers And Philanthropists Of This And Other Countries.

Book With Liberty for Some

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  • Author : Scott Christianson
  • Publisher : UPNE
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781555534684
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book With Liberty for Some written by Scott Christianson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Columbus' voyages to the New World through today's prison expansion movements, incarceration has played an important, yet disconcerting, role in American history. In this sweeping examination of imprisonment in the United States over five centuries, Scott Christianson exposes the hidden record of the nation's prison heritage, illuminating the forces underlying the paradox of a country that sanctifies individual liberty while it continues to build and maintain a growing complex of totalitarian institutions. Based on exhaustive research and the author's insider's knowledge of the criminal justice system, With Liberty for Some provides an absorbing, well-written chronicle of imprisonment in its many forms. Interweaving his narrative with the moving, often shocking, personal stories of the prisoners themselves and their keepers, Christianson considers convict transports to the colonies; the international trade in captive indentured servants, slaves, and military conscripts; life under slavery; the transition from colonial jails to model state prisons; the experience of domestic prisoners of war and political prisoners; the creation of the penitentiary; and the evolution of contemporary corrections. His penetrating study of this broad spectrum of confinement reveals that slavery and prisons have been inextricably linked throughout American history. He also examines imprisonment within the context of the larger society. With Liberty for Some is a thought-provoking work that will shed new light on the ways in which imprisonment has shaped the American experience. As the author writes, "Prison is the black flower of civilization -- a durable weed that refuses to die."

Book The Life of Thomas Eddy

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Eddy: Comprising an Extensive Correspondence With Many of the Most Distinguished Philosophers and Philanthropists of This and Other Countries Cussing. I readily agreed to put those papers in order, connected with a few remarks of my own, to the end that the public might have some idea of Mr. Eddy as a man, and of the great objects of his umful life. To show me the estimation in which Er. Eddy was held by the wise and good, which had known him well, Dr. Hosack put into my hands the follow ing letters, from men whose sincerity is above all doubt, and whose opinions have a commanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Life of Thomas Eddy

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Eddy written by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Biography by Americans  1658 1936

Download or read book Biography by Americans 1658 1936 written by Edward H. O'Neill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most comprehensive bibliography of purely biographical material written by Americans. It covers every possible field of life but, by design, excludes autobiographies, diaries, and journals.

Book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson  Retirement Series  Volume 11

Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Volume 11 written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retirement Series documents Jefferson's written legacy between his return to private life on 4 March 1809 and his death on 4 July 1826. During this period Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and sold his extraordinary library to the nation, but his greatest legacy from these years is the astonishing depth and breadth of his correspondence with statesmen, inventors, scientists, philosophers, and ordinary citizens on topics spanning virtually every field of human endeavor.--From publisher description.

Book The Life of Thomas M Crie  D D

Download or read book The Life of Thomas M Crie D D written by Thomas M'Crie and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mental institutions in America

Download or read book Mental institutions in America written by Gerald N. Grob and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation. The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values. The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.

Book Our First Hundred Years

Download or read book Our First Hundred Years written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Prisoners

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  • Author : Jodi Schorb
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-30
  • ISBN : 0813575400
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Reading Prisoners written by Jodi Schorb and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shining new light on early American prison literature—from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature—Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the “long” eighteenth century. Looking first at colonial America—an era often said to devalue jailhouse literacy—Jodi Schorb reveals that in fact this era launched the literate prisoner into public prominence. Criminal confessions published between 1700 and 1740, she shows, were crucial “literacy events” that sparked widespread public fascination with the reading habits of the condemned, consistent with the evangelical revivalism that culminated in the first Great Awakening. By century’s end, narratives by condemned criminals helped an audience of new writers navigate the perils and promises of expanded literacy. Schorb takes us off the scaffold and inside the private world of the first penitentiaries—such as Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Prison and New York’s Newgate, Auburn, and Sing Sing. She unveils the long and contentious struggle over the value of prisoner education that ultimately led to sporadic efforts to supply prisoners with books and education. Indeed, a new philosophy emerged, one that argued that prisoners were best served by silence and hard labor, not by reading and writing—a stance that a new generation of convict authors vociferously protested. The staggering rise of mass incarceration in America since the 1970s has brought the issue of prisoner rehabilitation once again to the fore. Reading Prisoners offers vital background to the ongoing, crucial debates over the benefits of prisoner education.

Book The Furnace of Affliction

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  • Author : Jennifer Graber
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011-03-14
  • ISBN : 0807877832
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Furnace of Affliction written by Jennifer Graber and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptive to the reformers' activities, and inmates also opposed them. Ensuing debates between reformers, officials, and inmates revealed deep disagreements over religion's place in prisons and in the wider public sphere as the separation of church and state took hold and the nation's religious environment became more diverse and competitive. Examining the innovative New York prison system, Graber shows how Protestant reformers failed to realize their dreams of large-scale inmate conversion or of prisons that reflected their values. To keep a foothold in prisons, reformers were forced to relinquish their Protestant terminology and practices and instead to adopt secular ideas about American morals, virtues, and citizenship. Graber argues that, by revising their original understanding of prisoner suffering and redemption, reformers learned to see inmates' afflictions not as a necessary prelude to a sinner's experience of grace but as the required punishment for breaking the new nation's laws.

Book From Newgate to Dannemora

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  • Author : W. David Lewis
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1501727672
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book From Newgate to Dannemora written by W. David Lewis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the United States was garnering international acclaim for its penal methods. Beginning with Newgate, an ill-fated institution built in New York City and named after the famous British prison, W. David Lewis describes the development of such well-known institutions as Auburn Prison and Sing Sing, and ends with the establishment of Clinton Prison at Dannemora. In the process, he analyzes the activities and motives of such penal reformers as Thomas Eddy, the Quaker merchant who was chiefly responsible for the founding of the penitentiary system in New York; Elam Lynds, whose unsparing use of the lash made him one of the most famous wardens in American history; and Eliza W. Farnham, who attempted to base the treatment of convicts upon the pseudoscience of phrenology.The history of the Auburn penal system—copied throughout the world in the nineteenth century—is the central topic of Lewis's study. Harsh and repressive discipline was the rule at Auburn; by night, the inmates were kept in solitary confinement and by day they were compelled to maintain absolute silence while working together in penitentiary shops. Moreover, the proceeds of their labor were expected to cover the full cost of institutional maintenance, turning the prison into a factory. (Indeed, Auburn Prison became a leading center of silk manufacture for a time.)Lewis shows how the rise and decline of the Auburn system reflected broad social and intellectual trends during the period. Conceived in the 1820s, a time of considerable public anxiety, the methods used at Auburn were seriously challenged twenty years later, when a feeling of social optimism was in the air. The Auburn system survived the challenge, however, and its methods, only slightly modified, continued to be used in dealing with most of the state's adult criminals to the end of the century.First published in 1965, From Newgate to Dannemora was the first in-depth treatment of American prison reform that took into account the broader context of political, economic, and cultural trends in the early national and Jacksonian period. With its clear prose and appealing narrative approach, this paperback edition will appeal to a new generation of readers interested in penology, the history of New York State, and the broader history of American social reform.