Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

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ISBN
9780684830957
Book Title
Worse than Slavery
Publisher
Free Press
Item Length
8.4 in
Publication Year
1997
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
David M. Oshinsky
Genre
Law, Social Science, History
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, General, Penology, Criminology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0684830957
ISBN-13
9780684830957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1126462

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Book Title
Worse than Slavery
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, General, Penology, Criminology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1997
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Social Science, History
Author
David M. Oshinsky
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Dewey Decimal
365.9762
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In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era--and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones , Mississippi's infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides., In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era--and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones , Mississippi's infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.
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HV9475.M72

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  • by deniserefugeehelper
    Nov 12, 2022

    Astounding!!

    Written about the penal system after slavery, it details the various atrocities of living in as a prisoner. It’s gut wrenching, horrifying but it is an important part of history that must not be forgotten.

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    Eye opening, appalling: truth.

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