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100 1 $aOshinsky, David M.,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83001238
245 10 $aWorse than slavery :$bParchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice /$cDavid M. Oshinsky.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiv, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-298) and index.
520 $a"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.
520 8 $aWilliam 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.".
520 8 $aNoted historian David M. Oshinsky draws on prison records, pardon files, folklore, oral history, and the blues to offer an unforgettable portrait of Parchman and Jim Crow justice - from the horrors of convict leasing in the late nineteenth century to the struggle for black equality in the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the spirit of civil rights workers who journeyed south on the Freedom Rides.
520 8 $aIn Mississippi, the criminal justice system often proved that there could be something worse than slavery. The "old" Parchman is gone, a casualty of federal court orders in the 1970s. What it tells us about our past is well worth remembering in a nation deeply divided by race.
610 20 $aMississippi State Penitentiary$xHistory.
650 0 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$zMississippi$xHistory.
650 0 $aPrisoners$zMississippi$xHistory.
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