Bandits & Bibles
Subtitle: convict literature in nineteenth-century America
By: edited by Larry E. Sullivan.
Contributors: Sullivan, Larry E.
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Prisoners' writings, American.; American literature -- 19th century.; Prisons -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; Ex-convicts -- United States -- Biography.; Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.; Ex-convicts -- Literary collections.; Prisoners -- Literary collections.; Prisons -- Literary collections.
Genres: Sources.; Biography.; Literary collections.
Other titles: Bandits and Bibles
Description: "Bandits & Bibles presents a lively array of selections from convict autobiographies that cover every facet of the prisoners' lives - crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, and, in some cases, spiritual awakening. The harrowing tales of convict life presented in this volume leave no doubt that prison in the nineteenth century was far from easy.

Hard labor in coal mines, whippings, solitary confinement in bare unheated cells, water torture, and iron maidens: These were just a few of the punishments meted out to these prisoners and vividly recounted in these pages."--BOOK JACKET.