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A New England Prison Diary

A New England Prison Diary
Author: Martin J Hershock
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472028529

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In 1812, New Hampshire shopkeeper Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse, charged with defamation of a prominent politician. During the months of his incarceration, Joy kept a remarkable journal that recounts his personal, anguished path toward spiritual redemption. Martin J. Hershock situates Joy's account in the context of the pugnacious politics of the early republic, giving context to a common citizen's perspective on partisanship and the fate of an unfortunate shopkeeper swept along in the transition to market capitalism. In addition to this close-up view of an ordinary person's experience of a transformative period, Hershock reflects on his own work as a historian. In the final chapter, he discusses the value of diaries as historical sources, the choices he made in telling Joy's story, alternative interpretations of the diary, and other contexts in which he might have placed Joy's experiences. The appendix reproduces Joy's original journal so that readers can develop their own skills using a primary source.


A Prison Diary

A Prison Diary
Author: FF 8282
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2002-10-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780330418638

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British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783

British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Sheldon Samuel Cohen
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781843830115

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America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Gradually a more balanced portrait of British attitudes towards the conflict has emerged. In particular, studies of pro-American Britons have exemplified this fact by concentrating on only a small upper-class minority. In contrast, this work focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure.


A Prison Diary

A Prison Diary
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2002
Genre: Novelists, English
ISBN:

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A Prison Diary

A Prison Diary
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 142996717X

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On July 19, 2001, following a conviction for perjury, international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison. When A Prison Diary was published in England, it was condemned by the prison authorities, and praised by the critics. Prisoner FF8282, as Archer is now known, spent the first three weeks in the notorious HMP Belmarsh, a high-security prison in South London, home to murderers, terrorists and some of Britain's most violent criminals. On the last day of the trial, his mother dies, and the world's press accompany him to the funeral. On returning to prison, he's placed on the lifer's wing, where a cellmate sells his story to the tabloids. Prisoners and guards routinely line up outside his cell to ask for his autograph, to write letters, and to seek advice on their appeals. For twenty-two days, Archer was locked in a cell with a murderer and a drug baron. He decided to use that time to write an hour-by-hour diary, detailing the worst three weeks of his life. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain all illustrations that appeared in the print edition.


Yankee Sailors in British Gaols

Yankee Sailors in British Gaols
Author: Sheldon Samuel Cohen
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874135640

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"Yankee Sailors in British Gaols offers the first comprehensive account of American servicemen detained within the confines of Mill and Forton prisons, the principal land-based detention centers in Britain during the American Revolution. Forton and Mill during the course of the War of Independence held approximately 3,000 American prisoners, almost all of them naval personnel. In a few cases, these American prisoners were incarcerated for more than four years, a longer recorded period of incarceration in overseas prisons than in any United States war prior to Vietnam. Professor Cohen's examination of wide-ranging and widely scattered primary and secondary sources provides an extraordinarily detailed picture of life within the closed society of each prison, as well as insight into the various ways in which Britons and Americans outside the prisons provided legal and extralegal help to the rebel detainees."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


A Prison Diary Volume I

A Prison Diary Volume I
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0330461818

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From the bestselling author of Kane and Abel, Hell is the first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries – the author's daily record of the time he spent locked inside. 'A haunting and compelling insight into prison life' – Daily Mail The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain. On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is his illuminating insight into prison life.


Prison Diary 3

Prison Diary 3
Author: Pan Macmillan
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2004-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781405048651

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American Diaries

American Diaries
Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 404
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

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