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Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (1st Edition) by David M. Oshinsky Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-684-83095-7 / 0684830957 ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83095-7 / 9780684830957 "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 P |