Size: 8x5x0; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned

Size: 8x5x0; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan. ] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered underlining and markings (some in ink). "This scholarly study of capital punishment in antebellum America is as timely as today's newspaper headline. Combining a gripping narrative with penetrating analysis, it sheds new light on attitudes toward crime, punishment, reform, and society from the Revolution to the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, Princeton University From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).