Monday, 29 February 2016

Written Behind Bars, This 1850s Memoir Links Prisons To Plantations

Written Behind Bars, This 1850s Memoir Links Prisons To Plantations

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is the earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer. Written by Austin Reed in the 1850s, it was discovered at an estate sale in 2009.
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