Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Worse Than Slavery
⚡Book Author : David M. Oshinsky
⚡Page : 320 pages
⚡Published April 22nd 1997 by Free Press (first published April 4th 1996)
Worse Than Slavery - 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 eraand beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippis 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.
Worse Than Slavery
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 eraand beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippis 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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