Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice

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Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice

Title remainder

Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice

Statement of responsibility

David M. Oshinsky

Creator

• trueOshinsky, David M., 1944-

Author

• trueOshinsky, David M., 1944-

Subject

• History
• Mississippi
• Mississippi State Penitentiary
• Mississippi State Penitentiary -- History
• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Prisoners -- Mississippi -- History
• Prisoners
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- Mississippi -- History

Genre

• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

"Worse Than Slavery" is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era - and beyond. Southern prisons have been immortalized in convict work songs, in the blues, and in movies such as Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones. Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary was the grandfather of them all, an immense, isolated plantation with shotguns, whips, and bloodhounds, where inmates worked the cotton fields in striped clothing from dawn to dusk. William Faulkner described Parchman as "destination doom." Its convicts included bluesmen like "Son" House and "Bukka" White, who featured the prison in the legendary "Midnight Special" and "Parchman Farm Blues."

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DLC

Dewey number

365/.9762

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography