Freeman's challenge : the murder that shook America's original prison for profit /

Freeman's challenge : the murder that shook America's original prison for profit /

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Author / Creator:	Bernstein, Robin, author.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Freeman, William, -- 1824-1847 -- Trials, litigation, etc. Freeman, William, -- 1824-1847 Auburn Correctional Facility. Auburn Correctional Facility Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- Auburn. Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- Auburn -- History. Insanity (Law) -- New York (State) -- Auburn -- History. Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. Prisons -- Law and legislation -- United States. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History. Prisons and race relations -- United States -- History. African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History. African Americans -- Civil rights Insanity (Law) Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. Prisons and race relations Prisons -- Law and legislation Trials (Murder) New York (State) -- Auburn United States History Trials, litigation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13525083

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ISBN:	9780226744230 022674423X 9780226744377
Provenance:	Binding: Includes dust-jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Robin Bernstein relates a bloody tale of race, murder, and injustice that forces us to rethink the origins and consequences of America's immoral system of prisons for profit. Bernstein brings to life the story of William Freeman, a free Black man who in 1840 was forced into unpaid labor as an inmate of Auburn State Prison in New York. After his release, he murdered four members of a white family, as revenge for the theft of his labor. His trial saw the crystallization of a nefarious ideology-the idea that African Americans are inherently criminal-yet it also shaped Auburn as an important node in the long battle for Black freedom"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface: "Slaves of the State"
Part I. The Prison
1. Sweet Auburn, Loveliest Prison
2. Outer Stone, Inner Rot
3. Skirmishes and Stagnancy
Part II. The Challenge
4. Back Pay and Payback
5. Work
Part III. The Effects
6. Howling Why
7. Three Stories
8. Rivals
9. Roads over Trails
10. Freedom after Freeman
Afterlives
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index