The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

Recently discovered, the earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer, comparable to The Bondswoman’s Narrative and 12 Years a Slave in historical importance and narrative power.

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.