What were the houses of refuge? Why were they created and how did they affect the gendered experience for those placed within them?
What will be an ideal response?
House of refuge was part of the Jacksonian movement (named after President Andrew Jackson) of the early 1800s to use institutions as the solution for social problems. Their stated purpose was to remove impressionable youth, mainly boys, but also girls, from the contamination that association with more hardened adult prisoners might bring. The workshops in the houses were operated by private contractors. Notably, the girls did all of the domestic work around the houses including the cleaning, cooking, and sewing of clothes for themselves and the boys. The discipline used in the houses varied from deprivation of recreation, to solitary confinement, to restrictions on food and water, and sometimes the use of corporal punishment or the use of stripes.
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