{"product_id":"buried-lives-michele-lise-tarter-9780820341200","title":"Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuried Lives\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation. The historians and literary scholars included in this volume offer a complement and corrective to conventional understandings of incarceration that privilege the intentions of those in power over the experiences of prisoners. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsidering such varied settings as jails, penitentiaries, almshouses, workhouses, floating prison ships, and plantations, the contributors reconstruct the struggles of people imprisoned in locations from Antigua to Boston. The essays draw upon a rich array of archival sources from the seventeenth century to the eve of the Civil War, including warden logs, petitions, execution sermons, physicians' clinical notes, private letters, newspaper articles, runaway slave advertisements, and legal documents. Through the voices, bodies, and texts of the incarcerated, \u003ci\u003eBuried Lives\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the largely ignored experiences of inmates who contested their subjection to regimes of power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820341207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820341200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2012","brand":"Richard Bell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947341775103,"sku":"9780820341200","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bbea1b46-82f5-4ed2-9784-ef3478ab14fb.jpg?v=1681518152","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/buried-lives-michele-lise-tarter-9780820341200","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}