The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

Reed, Austin; Smith, Caleb [Editor]; Blight, David W. [Foreword]; Stepto, Robert B. [Foreword];

ISBN 10: 0812997093 / ISBN 13: 9780812997095

Published by Random House, 2016

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NOT ex-library. 1st printing of 1st edition. Unused. Red dot (remainder mark) on bottom edge, otherwise still looks new. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812997093
• ISBN 13: 9780812997095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • African-American Studies

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Synopsis

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About the Author

Austin Reed was born in Rochester, New York, in 1823. He wrote this memoir around 1858–59, during his incarceration in Auburn State Prison. The date of his death is unknown.
 
Caleb Smith is a professor of English at Yale University and the author of The Prison and the American Imagination and The Oracle and the Curse.

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of Race and Reunion, A Slave No More, and the forthcoming Frederick Douglass: A Life.
 
Robert B. Stepto is a professor of African American studies, American studies, and English at Yale University. His publications include From Behind the Veil, Blue as the Lake, and A Home Elsewhere.