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    612-822-4611

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Worse Than Slavery

Worse Than Slavery

Oshinsky, David M.

Paperback

Black American StudiesCriminologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0684830957
ISBN13: 9780684830957
Publisher: Free Press
Published: Apr 22 1997
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
This sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity explores 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 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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