CHAPTER 22. The Vision in the Penitentiary Cell

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on the Text ix
4. Introduction xv
5. PART I. Remembering Homestead – The Strike and the Jails
6. CHAPTER 1. Capital and the Battle on the Monongahela 1
7. CHAPTER 2. A Fateful Leaflet 10
8. CHAPTER 3. Autobiographical Sketches 19
9. CHAPTER 4. Jail Experiences 31
10. CHAPTER 5. Further Arrests 40
11. CHAPTER 6. An American Court Farce 53
12. CHAPTER 7. Two Further Court Farces 63
13. PART II. Debating the Act–Assassination and Propaganda by Deed
14. CHAPTER 8. A Few Words as to My Deed 77
15. CHAPTER 9. The Red Bugbear 90
16. CHAPTER 10. Tolstoi or Bakunin? 96
17. PART III. Surviving Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary
18. CHAPTER 11. Our Prison Life: Second Half (February 1895–May 1897 99
19. CHAPTER 12. Penitentiary Administration and Treatment of Prisoners 108
20. CHAPTER 13. The Treatment of Prisoner A-444, in His Own Words 132
21. CHAPTER 14. The Shop-Screw 137
22. CHAPTER 15. The Trusted Prisoner 142
23. CHAPTER 16. Dialogue between Two Prisoners 145
24. CHAPTER 17. A Morning Conversation between Dutch and Mike (Two Prisoners) 147
25. PART IV. Defending Anarchy–The Case against Church and State
26. CHAPTER 18. Prisons and Crime 149
27. CHAPTER 19. Prisons and Crime 164
28. CHAPTER 20. Prisons and Crime 179
29. CHAPTER 21. Libertas: An Orthographical Study 192
30. CHAPTER 22. The Vision in the Penitentiary Cell 199
31. CHAPTER 23. The Sinking Ship: A Parable 204
32. CHAPTER 24. Winter Sun for My Prison Colleagues M & G, 1 January 1896 210
33. APPENDIX 1. Last Days in the Penitentiary: Excerpts from the Diary of Alexander Berkman 221
34. APPENDIX 2. Alexander Berkman’s Bibliography 224
35. Notes 231
36. Further Reading 250
37. Acknowledgments 253