| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xii, 163 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2663-6.)

In Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865, the historians Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers examine the attitudes and events surrounding the construction and maintenance of the first state prison in Alabama. This is a slim volume, but it follows with meticulous detail the trajectory of the debates among state officials about building a penitentiary. As any scholar who has worked in penitentiary records knows, pre–Civil War prison history can prove to be a frustrating research project, as the primary materials are so often missing or fragmentary. These authors are to be commended for their persistence in tracing the early documents, their exploration into a wide range of public sources, their reconstruction of often murky motives and events, and their well-organized presentation.

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