The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict by Austin Reed (Hardcover) (First Edition)
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By Austin Reed
Title: The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Author: Austin Reed
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Memoir / Historical Nonfiction
Condition: Used - Good
Description:
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 first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution.
Note: This hardcover edition is in used but in good condition but with light wear that does not affect its readability.
Author: Austin Reed
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Memoir / Historical Nonfiction
Condition: Used - Good
Description:
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 first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution.
Note: This hardcover edition is in used but in good condition but with light wear that does not affect its readability.
