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Original Title:	Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
ISBN:	1439107742 (ISBN13: 9781439107744)
Edition Language:	English

Worse Than Slavery

David M. Oshinsky

ebook | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	Worse Than Slavery
Author	:	David M. Oshinsky
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 22nd 1997 by Free Press (first published April 4th 1996)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Race. Cultural. African American. North American Hi.... American History. Politics

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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.

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I was compelled to read this book after I met a Freedom Rider who was held at Parchman during the early 60s. I didn't know much at all about the infamous prison farm other than its connection with some famous Blues musicians. This book was a page-turner for me. It's fascinating (and horrifying) as you study the history of the penal system in the South (and Mississippi in particular) and discover how this history still affects and shapes our present-day criminal justice system. I'm adding this

This is a well researched, detailed expose on the Parchman State Penitentiary in Mississippi. The facility started out as a penal farm for black men struggling after the end of the Civil War. Most were arrested for some small or made up offense and sent to Parchman which was, at the time, a working cotton plantation. The imprisoned were worked until they died with many more coming in behind them. Over time, the facility changed to a full-on penitentiary. The cotton went away and so did the work,

Oshinksy's bold title does not go unsupported in this wrenching tale of a Mississippi plantation prison: Parchman.The book takes an in depth look at the horrors of a racial caste system supported by the criminal legal system in the aftermath of emancipation. In the deep south, the freedom of slaves was hardly celebrated. Yet, ardent politicians, businessmen, and local sheriffs seemed to find a way to ensure that nothing changed. Or if it did, it changed for the worse. Violence and racial

This book reminded me of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." It wasn't quite as good or as moving, but it was equally dumbfounding. Nothing but example after example of how cruel and unforgiving our supposedly free and equal society can be to a group of people for a completely arbitrary reason. The descriptions of the lynchings and prison conditions and ordeals were all disturbing, but what was most disturbing was that so many individual people had the exact same experience. Another book that sort



Great book. Oshinsky is able to put Parchman Farm into the context of the Jim Crow era: the persistent violence among all groups, the extreme racism, attitudes about crime and slavery. It definitely changed my perspective and was well worth the read.

A must read. Very hard read, though. I came away this epiphany. Slavery and oppression of harm everyone, the oppressors and the oppressed. Just look at Mississippi, which is the focus of this book. Anyone who claims that slavery ended with the Civil War needs to read this book.