Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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An Act for the Better Employment, Relief and Support of the Poor, Within the City of Philadelphia, the District of Southwark, the Townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, and the Northern Liberties
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682-1801. ...
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801: 1765 to 1770
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Oct. 14, 1700-April 10, 1781
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Philadelphia 1681-1887
Author: Edward Pease Allinson
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Category : Philadelphia
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : Philadelphia
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Oct. 14, 1700-Mar. 9, 1771
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Liberty's Prisoners
Author: Jen Manion
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants—increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes. The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliest years. Within this system, women served a vital function, and Liberty's Prisoners is the first book to bring to life the e xperience of African American, immigrant, and poor white women imprisoned in early America. Always a minority of prisoners, women provided domestic labor within the institution and served as model inmates, more likely to submit to the authority of guards, inspectors, and reformers. White men, the primary targets of reformative incarceration, challenged authorities at every turn while African American men were increasingly segregated and denied access to reform. Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a repository for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants—increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes. The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliest years. Within this system, women served a vital function, and Liberty's Prisoners is the first book to bring to life the e xperience of African American, immigrant, and poor white women imprisoned in early America. Always a minority of prisoners, women provided domestic labor within the institution and served as model inmates, more likely to submit to the authority of guards, inspectors, and reformers. White men, the primary targets of reformative incarceration, challenged authorities at every turn while African American men were increasingly segregated and denied access to reform. Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a repository for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.
Oct. 14, 1758-Sept. 26, 1767
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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