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| #746025 in Books | Free Press | 1996-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x6.50 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Must-Read!|By jeanhee kang|In his book, Worse Than Slavery, Oshinsky documents the rise and fall of the Southern penal farm. By exposing Parchman Farm, the current state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta that was once a huge cotton plantation, he vividly captures a seldom mentioned shameful history of South. The author claims that slaves and freedmen were considered|From Scientific American|Oshinsky's beautifully constructed narrative brings to vivid life one of the most shameful chapters in American history.|From Booklist|Historian Oshi
Prisons in the deep South, with chain gangs, shotguns, and bloodhounds, have been immortalized in movies, blues music, and fiction. Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary was the grandfather of them all, a hellhole where conditions were brutal. This epic history fills the gap between slavery and the civil rights era, showing how Parchman and Jim Crow justice proved that there could be something worse than slavery. of photos.
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