PRISON LIFE AND REFLECTIONS: Or a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Treatment, Observations, Reflections and Deliverance of Work, Burr and Thompson Who Suffered an Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary, Etc.

Hardback. Originally pub. in 1847 by James M. Finch and pub. in this reprint - 3 parts in one volume. The author lived at the Mission Institute across the Mississippi River from the slave state of Missouri. Hearing the shrieks of the slaves as they were cruelly treated and their pleas for help, he and two friends determined to save them. The author tells of the horrors they faced as they were thrown into jail for their actions, their treatment by various Governors, lack of food and sickness. The horrific story of their punishment for a humane act. 417pp. 12mo. Bound in brown cloth/gilt titles. With tiny label to fpd o/w F.