Author Biography
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.
