Sir Long Chain Charles
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Sir Long Chain Charles
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Author : Clay Walker
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2008-06
Sir Long Chain Charles written by Clay Walker and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with categories.
The true no-holds barred story of one man's endurance on a Virginia chain gang and in the Virginia state penitentiary of the 1950's. The story follows the author from the crime of an eighteen year old - taking money that was owed to him - through his incarceration on a chain gang, his escape, return to prison, another chain gang and finally parole. Take a birds-eye view of the harsh realities of a chain gang camp where vicious, ignorant gun-wielding guards held the power of life or death over prisoners; and how the prisoners dealt with life there, sometimes cruelly, permanently disabling themselves by cutting their heel tendons to escape the severe non-stop work, and sometimes humorously. Follow along on a heart pounding escape, and then journey into a maximum-security prison where the rules are entirely different, and life was cheap. See what it took to survive and endure in order to return to the 'free' world. Long Chain Charlie was an integral part of the Virginia Department of Corrections and as such became known as Sir Long Chain Charles by my choosing - something to be respected for it's service. I knew the first time I stepped on board Long Chain that I was being taken to a rolling hell - the guard's terse introduction as he handcuffed me to the seat told me that. "You can try to escape if you want to. If you do try, I'll kill you. It's simple as that." I was an extremely youthful looking eighteen year old who could pass for fourteen, fresh from the mountainous backwoods with a brand-new ten year sentence, but I believed him, and couldn't help but think that this was just the tip of the iceberg, my introduction to the Virginia penal system: a cold, dark gray bus encased in bars and heavy wire mesh, taking me to a cold, dark gray penitentiary. It was going to be a long ten years. The Commonwealth of the state of Virginia was the only penal system to my knowledge that was fully self-sustaining. There were thirty-two chain gang camps, part of them black only, part of them white only, a huge state farm, each county had it's own farm, even most of the chain gang camps had them. The two I was in certainly did. Then there was the block plant, the lime plant, and the nearly twenty-four hundred convicts at 500 Spring Street, the penitentiary, were kept busy in the shops. There was the knitting mill for socks, underwear and t-shirts; the tailor shops for the uniforms and going-out clothes; the furniture shop, the tag shop, the machine shop. All the inmates were fed, clothed and maintained by their own hand. This same system would work in every penal institution today, or on the other hand, maybe it wouldn't work because today the jail birds would start screaming "We got rights ' and some facet of society would come along and say "Their rights were violated. Release them " thus releasing and creating more two-legged slugs onto the streets that society has to condone. I am proud to say that after everything I have endured in the Commonwealth of Virginia's penal system, I still emerged human.
The History Of General Sir Charles Napier S Conquest Of Scinde
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Author : Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. P. Napier
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2012-04-13
The History Of General Sir Charles Napier S Conquest Of Scinde written by Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. P. Napier and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-13 with History categories.
Peccavi' - the Latin for 'I have sinned' - was the punning one-word telegram with which General Sir Charles Napier announced to the world his 1843 capture of Scinde (or Sind). Napier, a much wounded 61-year-old veteran of the Peninsula War, was placed in charge of the turbulent province, whose ruling Emirs, encouraged by British reverses in nearby Afghanistan, rose against Britain's power. Napier's forces routed the Emirs at the battles of Meanee and Hyderabad and the region became a key part of British India, making Napier into a popular Victorian hero. Unsurprisingly, Sir William Napier, the author of this work, is an uncritical admirer of his brother and fellow General, and is unsparing in his critique of those he perceives as Charles Napier's British enemies in the bureaucratic turf wars of the Raj. With 12 appendices and several endpaper maps.
The History Of General Sir Charles Napier S Conquest Of Scinde
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Author : William Francis Patrick Napier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The History Of General Sir Charles Napier S Conquest Of Scinde written by William Francis Patrick Napier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Sindh (Pakistan) categories.
The Life And Opinions Of General Sir Charles James Napier G C B
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Author : Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Life And Opinions Of General Sir Charles James Napier G C B written by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
The Life And Opinions Of General Sir Charles James Napier
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Author : William Francis Patrick Napier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Life And Opinions Of General Sir Charles James Napier written by William Francis Patrick Napier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with India categories.
The Life And Opinions Of General Sir Charles James Napier G C B
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Author : William Francis Patrick Napier
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-10-12
The Life And Opinions Of General Sir Charles James Napier G C B written by William Francis Patrick Napier and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-12 with categories.
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison In A Series Of Letters New Edition Etc
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Author : Samuel Richardson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison In A Series Of Letters New Edition Etc written by Samuel Richardson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with categories.
Intelligent Souls
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Author : Samara Anne Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-17
Intelligent Souls written by Samara Anne Cahill and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-17 with History categories.
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century British culture. Samara Anne Cahill's ambitious study explores two separate but overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam in the eighteenth century which produce the phenomenon of "feminist orientalism." One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents, and the other tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s.
The Facts On File Chemistry Handbook
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Author : Diagram Group
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
The Facts On File Chemistry Handbook written by Diagram Group and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Chemistry categories.
Presents a basic reference guide to chemistry that includes a glossary, brief biographies, a chronology of important events in chemistry and a compendium of formulas.
Charles E Milnor Vs The Newark Plank Road Ferry Co Als William L Shardlow Vs The Same
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
Charles E Milnor Vs The Newark Plank Road Ferry Co Als William L Shardlow Vs The Same written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with categories.