| Worse Than Slavery Contributor(s): Oshinsky, David M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684830957 ISBN-13: 9780684830957 Publisher: Free Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: The brutal conditions and inhuman treatment of African-Americans in Southern prisons has been immortalized in blues songs and in such movies as "Cool Hand Luke". Now, drawing on police and prison records and oral histories, David M. Oshinsky presents an account of Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm; what it tells us about our past is well worth remembering in a nation deeply divided by race. Two 8-page photo inserts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 365.976 |
| LCCN: 95052880 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
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| Publisher Description: 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 Era--and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Oshinsky, David M.: - David M. Oshinsky, PhD, is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery" Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. |