Prisoner of the Rebels in Texas
Author | : Aaron T. Sutton |
Publisher | : Books Americana |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aaron T. Sutton |
Publisher | : Books Americana |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Perkinson |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2010-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1429952776 |
A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.
Author | : Danial F. Lisarelli |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1999-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781581127836 |
Five years ago, I was told that Union prisoners of war from the Civil War were buried in Hempstead, Texas. In being a descendent of six Union veterans of the Civil War, I was obligated to investigate. The story turned out to be true, but there was much more to it than what I bargained for.
Author | : United States. Naval History Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Ships |
ISBN | : |
Author | : B. P. Gallaway |
Publisher | : ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780891125402 |
Here is the adventurous, eloquent, true story of David Carey Nance--a young Texas farmer caught up in the carnage of the Cival War as a soldier in William H. Parsons' Texas Cavalry.
Author | : United States. War Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : |
Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
Author | : United States. War Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : |
Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
Author | : Staughton Lynd |
Publisher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2011-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1604865350 |
Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death “sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.” Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares, “They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison ‘tribes’ to reach commonality.”
Author | : Stephen L. Hardin |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292792522 |
Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque." In this highly readable history, Stephen L. Hardin discovers more than a little truth in both of those views. Drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield, he offers the first complete military history of the Revolution. From the war's opening in the "Come and Take It" incident at Gonzales to the capture of General Santa Anna at San Jacinto, Hardin clearly describes the strategy and tactics of each side. His research yields new knowledge of the actions of famous Texan and Mexican leaders, as well as fascinating descriptions of battle and camp life from the ordinary soldier's point of view. This award-winning book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in Texas or military history.