BURIED ALIVE BEHIND PRISON WALLS (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Inside Story of Jackson State Prison from the Eyes of a Former Slave Who Was Punished for Killing a White Man in Self Defence (Black History Series)By Thomas S. Gaines
Length8h 22m
About this audiobook
Buried Alive Behind Prison Walls is a stark carceral narrative that exposes prison as a regime of living death: bodily confinement, moral surveillance, institutional cruelty, and the slow erosion of identity. Written in the plain yet forceful style of nineteenth-century reform testimony, the book belongs to the tradition of prison exposés, captivity narratives, and social-protest literature, using personal witness to challenge public complacency about punishment. Thomas S. Gaines writes with the urgency of one intimate with the world he describes. His perspective suggests not detached observation but lived proximity to the penal system, its routines, humiliations, and psychological violence. That closeness gives the work its authority: Gaines is less concerned with literary ornament than with making visible the hidden human cost of incarceration. This book is recommended for readers interested in prison history, American reform movements, criminology, and testimonial literature. It will especially reward those who seek early critiques of mass confinement and the moral contradictions of justice systems that punish by disappearance. Gaines's work remains a sobering document of suffering, resistance, and institutional accountability.
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Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 20, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BURIED ALIVE BEHIND PRISON WALLS (Annotated)
2PREFACE
3PART FIRST BURIED ALIVE LIFE OF WILLIAM WALKER
4CHAPTER I SHARKS FED ON HUMAN FLESH — IN THE SLAVE PEN AT NEW ORLEANS
5CHAPTER II DICK FALLON, THE DEVIL'S BROTHER — NANCY, THE OCTOROON GIRL — THE COTTON FIELD — THE MURDER
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6CHAPTER III THE ESCAPE — PURSUED BY BLOOD HOUNDS — THE CAPTURE — THE PUNISHMENT
7CHAPTER IV NANCY'S DREAM — A TERRIBLE BLOW — GLOOM — BELLS TOLLING IN THE SKY
8CHAPTER V A FLASH OF LIGHTNING KILLS FALLON AND WRITES HIS NAME ON STONE
9CHAPTER VI IN OLD MISSOURI — THE ESCAPE — ARRIVAL IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN
10CHAPTER VII FARMING — THE SHOLTZ FAMILY — THE MEETING WITH NANCY — THE QUARREL — THE MURDER
11PART SECOND LIFE IN JACKSON PRISON
12CHAPTER I IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT — ABOLISHMENT OF THE SOLITARIES — "FRENCH JOE"
13CHAPTER II THE CONTRACT SYSTEM — ESCAPE AND CAPTURE OF TOM BARTOLES — DIED WITH HIS SHACKLES ON
14CHAPTER III THE REIGN OF TERROR — DRAWN FROM HIS CELL WITH RED-HOT IRONS
15CHAPTER IV A NEW ADMINISTRATION — A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER — A WOMAN PHILANTHROPIST
16CHAPTER V USE OF TOBACCO PROHIBITED — THE HAUNTED ROOM — THE LIGHTNING BOLT
17CHAPTER VI PRISON LIFE AT MIDNIGHT — SHAVING ON SHORT NOTICE — HORRIBLE FATALITIES
18CHAPTER VII CUNNING ESCAPES — WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BANQUET — CONVICT McLOUD KILLED
19CHAPTER VIII THE STRETCHING MACHINE — RECORD OF MISCONDUCT — FATALITIES, MURDERS AND SUICIDES
20CHAPTER IX WARDEN HATCH AND PRISON REFORM — THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE ACT
21CHAPTER X THE LITERARY MEETINGS AND RELIGIOUS SERVICES — THE PRISON CHAPLAIN
22CHAPTER XI GUILTY AND INNOCENT — CANFIELD, THE SLAYER OF LITTLE NELLIE GRIFFIN
23CHAPTER XII DIED FOR WANT OF WATER — WILLIAM WALKER'S PETITION FOR A PARDON
24CHAPTER XIII PRISON LITERARY MEETINGS — ESSAYS BY EDWARD HANLAN, IRVING LATIMER AND WILLIAM BUTLER
25CHAPTER XIV LOVERS OF PRISON LIFE — BEGGING TO BE RETURNED TO PRISON
26CHAPTER XV SUNDAY IN PRISON — MUSICAL PRISONERS — THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
27CHAPTER XVI DESPERATE PRISONERS — MACHINERY DEMOLISHED WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER — PRINCE MICHAEL
28CHAPTER XVII CANDIDATES FOR THE HOSPITAL — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT — SINGULAR MURDERS
29CHAPTER XVIII THE SUNDAY SCHOOL — PAPER READ BY IRVING LATIMER AT A SABBATH SCHOOL EXHIBITION
30CHAPTER XIX EXPIRATION OF WARDEN HATCH'S ADMINISTRATION — A CHRISTMAS PRESENTATION
31CHAPTER XX WARDEN DAVIS' ADMINISTRATION — EMANCIPATION DAY ADDRESS — CONCLUSION
32Memorable Quotes
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