Worse Than Slavery
of David M. Oshinsky
Description
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 Eraâand beyond.Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippiâs 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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- Format E-book
- Pages 320 pages
- Publisher Free Press
- Publication Date April 22nd 1997
- First Publication 04/04/96
- Language English
- ISBN 9781439107744
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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