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1 de ene. de 2022 · Internet Archive. Language. English. pages cm. "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a rare and original autobiography, a first-person account of a young black man's life as an indentured servant, a juvenile delinquent, and a prisoner in New York State in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the Inmate of a Gloomy Prison, With the Mysteries and Miseries of the New York House of Reffuge [sic] and Auburn Prison Unmasked is the title of a c.1858 book-length manuscript by Austin Reed, an African American who served several terms as a prisoner in the Auburn State Prison in ...
January 2016. 0812997093. The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration, slavery and the penal system in America.
Austin Reed. Random House, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 270 pages. The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale...
Accompanied by fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice.
View all images. In his memoir, written around 1859, Austin Reed attributes the wayward course of his life to the tragic loss of his father at the age of six. Reed recounts his experiences at the New York House of Refuge, the first juvenile reformatory in the United States, and later in New York’s Auburn State Prison.
18 de abr. de 2016 · The oldest known incarceration memoir by an African American indicts a system that destroys souls. By Reginald Dwayne Betts. Owen Freeman. May 2016 Issue. “Certain kinds of black men’s stories are...
