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.
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