An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Robin Bernstein's Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit.

  • Published In: Civil War History, 2025, v. 71, n. 2. P. 66 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Downs, Jim; Kutzler, Evan; Lande, Jonathan; Mitchell, Koritha; Thompson, Heather Ann; Webster, Crystal; Wells, Jonathan 3 of 3

Abstract

The article presents a roundtable discussion on Robin Bernstein's book "Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit" which examines the origin of profit-driven incarceration in antebellum New York. Topics include the book's exposure of the process of entanglement in New York in 19th-century, and how the work redefines the historiography of prisons and their economic foundations through Afro-Native William Freeman who was sentenced in the Auburn State Prison.

Additional Information

  • Source:Civil War History. 2025/06, Vol. 71, Issue 2, p66
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Law
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0009-8078
  • DOI:10.1353/cwh.2025.a960251
  • Accession Number:185450467

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