The Resource The life and the adventures of a haunted convict, Austin Reed ; edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith ; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto
The life and the adventures of a haunted convict, Austin Reed ; edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith ; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto
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The item The life and the adventures of a haunted convict, Austin Reed ; edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith ; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Summary
- "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is 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 was born a free man near Rochester, NY in the 1820s. As a young adult, he was sent to a juvenile reform school in Manhattan, where he learned to read and write. In the decades that followed, Reed would be repeatedly incarcerated for theft in a state prison in Auburn. It was there that he began to write this memoir, which explores America's first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate's point of view, and the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places, excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage extending beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. A work of uncommon, haunting beauty, this is a major historical document that transforms our understanding of nineteenth-century history and literature"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- lxx, 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812997095
- Label
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict
- Title
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict
- Statement of responsibility
- Austin Reed ; edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith ; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto
- Subject
-
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Prisons -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
- Reed, Austin, 1823?-
- Reformatories -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- African American prisoners -- New York (State) -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is 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 was born a free man near Rochester, NY in the 1820s. As a young adult, he was sent to a juvenile reform school in Manhattan, where he learned to read and write. In the decades that followed, Reed would be repeatedly incarcerated for theft in a state prison in Auburn. It was there that he began to write this memoir, which explores America's first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate's point of view, and the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places, excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage extending beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. A work of uncommon, haunting beauty, this is a major historical document that transforms our understanding of nineteenth-century history and literature"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1823?-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Reed, Austin
- Dewey number
-
- 365/.34
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV9468.R44
- LC item number
- A3 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1977-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Smith, Caleb
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Reed, Austin
- African American prisoners
- African Americans
- Reformatories
- Prisons
- United States
- United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Label
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict, Austin Reed ; edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith ; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1634461
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- lxx, 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812997095
- Lccn
- 2015017693
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1634461
- (OCoLC)910239457
- Label
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict, Austin Reed ; edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith ; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1634461
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- lxx, 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812997095
- Lccn
- 2015017693
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1634461
- (OCoLC)910239457
Subject
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Prisons -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
- Reed, Austin, 1823?-
- Reformatories -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- African American prisoners -- New York (State) -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
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