I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang

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I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang
By Robert E. Burns
Hardcover, 145 pp

From the Publisher:
This rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a resilient and resourceful everyman buffeted by the hardships of life appealed to the hopes and fears of Depression America. Brooklyn-born Burns returned from World War I a confused and misfit veteran. Reduced to bare feet, tatters and robbery, he was arrested in 1922 and sentenced to six to ten years on the Georgia chain gang. After suffering torturous treatment and twice escaping, Burns wrote his story while in hiding in 1931.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the impoverished State of Georgia leased its prisoners to private companies, which saved money but abandoned the reformation of criminals to their exploitation. In 1908, attempting reform, the State began working convicts on county roads, but the daily treatment of the prisoners remained harsh at best and often brutal. It was not until the late 1940’s that the use of leg-irons, shackles and corporal punishment was outlawed on the Georgia chain gang.

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