WOMEN WHIPPED IN PRISON.; THE CRUELTY PRACTICED IN THE WOMAN'S REFORMATORY OF INDIANA. - The New York Times
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How the oldest women's prison in the country came to be
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New York, New York - The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Indiana Women's Prison
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Mary Ellen Wilson - Wikipedia
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Unlikely Neighbors: Woodruff Place and the Women's Prison, Historic Indianapolis
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The Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System โ Texas Monthly
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Theodore Dwight Weld, 1803-1895. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses.
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Fire to the Prisons Issue 9 Anarchist Quarterly 2010
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An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women's Rights - The New York Times