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Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice /

"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�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, [1996]
Subjects:
Mississippi State Penitentiary > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Mississippi > History.
Prisoners > Mississippi > History.
State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi.
Justice pénale > Administration > Mississippi > Histoire.
Prisonniers > Mississippi > Histoire.
Fallstudiensammlung.
Gefängnis.
Geschichte.
Mississippi (Staat)

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