This image depicts a five story warehouse built in 1763 that was used to store sugar and molasses in Lower Manhattan. During the Revolutionary War, it was believed to have been operated as a British prison for rebels.
<p><span class="deck">An American journalist, George Kennan, was the first to reveal the full horrors of Siberian exile and the brutal, studied inhumanity of czarist “justice”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> While some American captives languished, others conducted a flourishing market—and a huge black sailor organized everything</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The penitentiary was invented in the United States as a more rational and humane way of punishing. It quickly ran into problems that still overwhelm us.</span> </p>
<p>British jailers murdered American prisoners several months after the end of the War of 1812 in the last act of hostility between the U.K. and the United States.</p>
