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Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
Worse than Slavery Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice Author:David M. Oshinsky Immortalized in blues 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 ... more »oral history, from the day of the 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. "Worse Than Slavery" is a sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity.« less
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