Title: Buried from the world
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Biography, History, Massachusetts State Prison, Notebooks, sketches, Notebooks, sketches, etc, Prison chaplains, Prisoners, Prisons, Sources, Prisons, united states, Prisoners, united states, Chaplains, Boston (mass.), history, Notebooks, sketchbooks
Places: Boston, Massachusetts
People: Jared Curtis (1777-1862)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: HV9475.M42 M373 2001