by ROBERT E. BURNS, introduction by ALEX LICHTENSTEIN, 144 pages, frontispiece For nearly a century after the Civil War, the State of Georgia treated its convicted felons harshly, first leasing them to private companies and later working them on county roads. Working the convicts relentlessly under sometimes brutal conditions, the authorities abandoned reformation and exploited cheap labor. Brooklyn-born Burns returned from World War I a misfit veteran. Reduced to desperation and robbery, he was arrested in 1922 and sentenced to six to ten years on the Georgia chain gang. After suffering torturous treatment and escaping, Burns wrote his story in 1931. isbn 0-88322-013-x hardcover$30.00 The Beehive Foundation 208 West Harris Street Savannah, Georgia 31401 These books are published without profit as an educational service. Keywords: The Beehive Foundation, The Beehive Press, Books About the South, Southern History, books, gift books, coffee-table books, coffee table books, presents, publiser, publishing, press, architecture, civil war, old south, slavery, southern plantations, documentary histories, restoration, Savannah, Georgia, scholar, historian, author, Mills Lane, Mills Bee Lane, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Architecture of the Old South, Charleston, confederacy, colonial, revolutionary war, sherman, greek revival, romantic, antebellum, federal, Free Joe, Trouble in July, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang, Robert E. Burns, a milestone in the publishing of books on georgia and the south, books that are artistic, important and beautiful, bee-hive, behive, small press, non-profit, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, birthday presents.