The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict

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 Auburn, New York. The manuscript relates his early life in Rochester, New York, his apprenticeship to a local farmer and arrest for arson, his stay at the New York House of Refuge, a juvenile detention facility in Manhattan, and his imprisonment at Auburn.

Now in the possession of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University,[1] the manuscript is reportedly the earliest prison memoir by an African American.[2] An edition of the manuscript, prepared by Caleb Smith, was published in February 2016.[3][4]

References
  1. http://news.yale.edu/2013/12/12/first-known-prison-narrative-african-american-writer-discovered-yale-s-beinecke-library
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/books/prison-memoir-of-a-black-man-in-the-1850s.html
  3. Bosman, Julie (2013-12-15). "Random House Acquires 1800s Prison Memoir". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
  4. Reed, Austin. (2016) The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict. New Haven: Yale University Press.


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