Beecher Deason

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Beecher Deason (February 3, 1900 – June 8, 1951) was an American author and former convict from Rusk County, Texas. Born Henry Ward Beecher Deason, he is best known for Eight Years in Southern Prisons, an autobiographical account published in 1924.

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Eight Years in Southern Prisons

By Beecher Deason

A true account of chain-gang life in the 1920s South

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