The Life And The Adventures Of A Haunted Convict

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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.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.
AUSTIN REED (1823-unknown) was born in Rochester, NY. His memoir was written around 1858-59, when he was still incarcerated. Editor CALEB SMITH is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University and the author of The Oracle and the Curse and The Prison and the American Imagination.