Worse Than Slavery by David M Oshinsky
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.
David M.Oshinsky, PhD, is a professor of history at New York University and the director of the NYU School of Medicine's Division of Medical Humanities. Polio: An American Tale won him the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2005. Among his other works are the D.B. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, which won the Hardeman Award, and Worse Than Slavery Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, which won the Robert Kennedy Prize. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal publish his essays and reviews on a regular basis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684830957 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684830957 |
| Title | Worse Than Slavery |
| Author | David M Oshinsky |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) |
| Year published | 1997-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
| Prizes | Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 1997 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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