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Bandits & Bibles

Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

ISBN-13: 9781888451375

Contributor(s): Larry E Sullivan

Subject: True Crime

Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books

Publication Date: 01-02-2003

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£14.95

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About the book

Now a highly politicised medium, this book of prison literature collects a lively array of selections from the earliest recorded convict autobiographies, examining crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, survival techniques and spiritual awakenings. Hard labour in coal mines, whippings, solitary confinement in bare unheated cells, water torture and iron maidens were just a few of the punishments meted out to these prisoners and vividly recounted in these selections.