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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Georgia Press
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. The War Makes a Wanderer -- II. The Wanderer Gets into a Jam -- III. An Introduction to the Georgia Chain Gang -- IV. A Decision to ""Run Out -- V. Breaking the Shackles -- VI. Running the Gauntlet Through Georgia -- VII. To Chicago and-Freedom -- VIII. An Unfortunate Marriage -- IX. Success, Romance and-Betrayal -- X. The Heavy Hand of Unfeeling Law -- XI. In the Coils of Legal Red Tape -- XII. The Fight against Extradition -- XIII. Back to the Horrors of the Gang -- XIV. A Request for Money-and a Transfer. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a XV. Life at the Troup County Stockade -- XVI. Excitement Among the Convicts -- XVII. A Hearing Before the Prison Commission -- XVIII. Some Interesting Sidelights on Chain-Gang Life -- XIX. The Depths of Despair -- XX. Hope Revived Once More -- XXI. The Serious Barrier of Georgia Prejudice -- XXII. Driven to Desperation -- XXIII. Preparation for a Daring Break -- XXIV. Another Try at Breaking the Gang -- XXV. Almost Recaptured -- XXVI. Out of Georgia to an Unknown Destination -- XXVII. A Fugitive in his Native Land. | |
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