Dreamers Rise

More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Austin Reed, an African-American inmate of New York State's Auburn State Prison, wrote a boo...

"I despise the looks of a novel. The cursed infernal things, I can't bear the sight of one. They are a curse to every one that read...

There is now a tentative publishing date as well as a cover image for the edition of Austin Reed's 19th-century prison memoir The Life...

Yale University's Beinecke Library has announced the acquisition and authentication of a 304-page manuscript said to be the earliest ...