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Carceral State: Baton Rouge and its Plantation Environs Across Emancipation

Description:

This work examines systems of incarceration across emancipation, beginning in slavery and ending with the unravelling of Reconstruction in late 1868 and early 1869 in the Baton Rouge area. The enslavers in the region built a system of carceral consumption in the 1850s, basing their wealth and...

Author:

Horne, William Iverson

Keyword:

Civil War, slavery, incarceration, capitalism, Reconstruction, and emancipation

GW Unit:

History

Degree:

Ph.D.

Advisor:

Anbinder, Tyler and Zimmerman, Andrew

Committee Member(s):

Chapman, Erin D and Rothman, Adam

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation