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Publisher | Random House Usa Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780812997095 |
Book Description | 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 in america in 2009 scholars at yale university came across a startling manuscript the memoir of austin reed a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant lost for more than one hundred and fifty years the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an african american corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources reed s text gives a gripping firstperson account of an antebellum northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore in its daytoday details unsettling resemblances to that very institution |
Language | English |
Author | Austin Reed |
Edition Number | 1 |
Publication Date | 3/21/2016 |
Number of Pages | 336 |
The Life And The Adventures Of A Haunted Convict hardcover english - 3/21/2016