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      Liberty’s Prisoners

      EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES

      Series editors:

      Daniel K. Richter, Kathleen M. Brown,

      Max Cavitch, and David Waldstreicher

      Exploring neglected aspects of our colonial,

      revolutionary, and early national history and culture,

      Early American Studies reinterprets familiar themes

      and events in fresh ways. Interdisciplinary in character,

      and with a special emphasis on the period from about

      1600 to 1850, the series is published in partnership with

      the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

      A complete list of books in the series

      is available from the publisher.

      Liberty’s Prisoners

      Carceral Culture in Early America

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      Jen Manion

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      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

      PHILADELPHIA

      Copyright © 2015 University of Pennsylvania Press

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used

      for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this

      book may be reproduced in any form by any means without

      written permission from the publisher.

      Published by

      University of Pennsylvania Press

      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

       www.upenn.edu/pennpress

      Printed in the United States of America

      on acid-free paper

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      ISBN 978-0-8122-4757-2

       For my teachers

      CONTENTS

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       List of Abbreviations

       Introduction

       Chapter 1. Rebellious Workers

       Chapter 2. Sentimental Families

       Chapter 3. Dangerous Publics

       Chapter 4. Freedom’s Limits

       Chapter 5. Sexual Orderings

       Conclusion

       Appendix

       Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Illustrations

      ABBREVIATIONS

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BOI Inspectors of the Jail and Penitentiary House, Philadelphia Prisons System, PCA
HSP Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
MAG Magdalen Society of Philadelphia, HSP
MCD Mayor’s Court Docket, PCA
PCA Philadelphia City Archives
PFT Prisoners for Trial Docket, Philadelphia Prisons System, PCA
PG Pennsylvania Gazette
PMHB Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
PPS Pennsylvania Prison Society, HSP
PSA Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg
PSAMPP Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, HSP
PSD Prison Sentence Docket, Philadelphia Prisons System, PCA
Statutes The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1801, ed. James T. Mitchell, Henry Flanders, et al. (Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1896)
VAG Vagrancy Docket, Philadelphia Prisons System, PCA
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      Introduction

      WHEN THE WAR with Great Britain finally came to an end, Pennsylvania’s legislature moved quickly to enact what it had first approved in the state constitution of 1776: major revisions to the penal code to reduce the number of capital crimes and put an end to harsh punishment.1 Under the newly democratic

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