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Buried from the world : inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831 : the memorandum books of the Rev. Jared Curtis

Title
Buried from the world : inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831 : the memorandum books of the Rev. Jared Curtis / edited by Philip F. Gura.
Author
Curtis, Jared, 1777-1862.
Publication
Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society : Distributed by Northeastern University Press, 2002.

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Gura, Philip F., 1950-
Description
lxxii, 260 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"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.
Subject
  • Curtis, Jared, 1777-1862 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
  • Massachusetts State Prison > History > Sources
  • Prisons > Boston > History > 19th century > Sources
  • Prisoners > Boston > History > 19th century > Sources
  • Prisoners > Boston > Biography
  • Prison chaplains > Boston
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
0934909792
LCCN
2002000732
OCLC
  • 506122980
  • ocn506122980
  • SCSB-4277731
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries