| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Scott Christianson. With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1998. Pp. xix, 394. $35.00.

Scott Christianson's book is an oddity: a richly documented work geared for a popular audience. The aim of the book is nothing less than to trace the American history of imprisonment, broadly defined, from earliest colonial times to the present day. Although the penitentiary takes center stage, Christianson spends quite a few pages chronicling other forms of captivity, including indentured servitude, transportation, chattel slavery, prisoner of war camps, and Indian removals. The result is a readable but sprawling account, of interest to the student but of limited value to serious scholars in the field. . . .

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