The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law 9780520969490
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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy
1. The Architecture of Liberalism and the Origins of Carceral Democracy
2. Territorial Politics: Mass Incarceration and the Punitive Legacies of the Indian Territory
3. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas
4. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas
5. Leavenworth’s Political Prisoners: Race, Resistance, and the Prison’s Archive
Postscript: “Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: Abolition Dreams and the Prison’s Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy
1. The Architecture of Liberalism and the Origins of Carceral Democracy
2. Territorial Politics: Mass Incarceration and the Punitive Legacies of the Indian Territory
3. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas
4. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas
5. Leavenworth’s Political Prisoners: Race, Resistance, and the Prison’s Archive
Postscript: “Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: Abolition Dreams and the Prison’s Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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- Sara M. Benson
