Buried from the world
Subtitle: inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831 : the memorandum books of the Rev. Jared Curtis
By: edited by Philip F. Gura
Contributors: Gura, Philip F., 1950-
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society; Distributed by Northeastern University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Curtis, Jared, -- 1777-1862 -- Notebooks, sketches, etc; Massachusetts State Prison -- History -- Sources; Prisons -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Prisoners -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Prisoners -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography; Prison chaplains -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Genres: Notebooks, sketches, etc; Sources; Biography
Description: "Between 1829 and 1831, Jared Curtis, the newly appointed prison chaplain at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, interviewed every one of the over 300 inmates at the prison and recorded their biographies in two leatherbound notebooks. Those notebooks, fully transcribed and well annotated after their discovery in 1998, form the basis for Philip Gura's Buried from the World: Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index