Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum AmericaCampaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. It probes the concerns underlying the naval, prison, domestic, and educational reform campaigns which occurred in New England and New York from the late 1820s to the late 1850s. Focusing on the common forms of physical punishment inflicted on seamen, prisoners, women, and children, the book reveals the effect of these campaigns on actual disciplinary practices. Myra C. Glenn also places the crusade against corporal punishment in the context of various other contemporary reform movements such as the crusade against intemperance and that against slavery. She shows how regional and political differences affected discussions of punishment and discipline. |
Contents
The Antebellum Crusade against Corporal Punishment Origins and Leaders | 7 |
Reform Campaigns against Corporal Punishment Institutional Concerns | 23 |
Reform Campaigns against Corporal Punishment Cultural Concerns | 39 |
Wife Beating and the Limits of the AntiCorporal Punishment Crusade | 63 |
A Victims Perspective NineteenthCentury Seamen and Convict Writings on Punishment | 85 |
A House Divided Public Debates Over Corporal Punishment 18431852 | 103 |
From Theory to Practice The Decline of Corporal Punishment in Antebellum America | 127 |
Appendixes | 149 |
Notes | 165 |
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