WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/39344868

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

"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. Worse Than Slavery is a sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity."--Cover.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • ""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. Worse Than Slavery is a sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity."--Cover."@en
  • ""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. William 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.""
  • ""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. William 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."."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fallstudie"
  • "Fallstudiensammlung"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice"
  • "Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice"@en
  • ""Worse than slavery" : Parchman farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice"
  • ""Worse than slavery" : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice"@en
  • ""Worse than slavery" : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice"

workExample