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Capital and convict : race, region, and punishment in post-Civil War America

Henry Kamerling (Author)
The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as central--if not more so--in shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States

eBook, English, 2017
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2017