Worse Than Slavery
Title | Worse Than Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Oshinsky |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1997-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1439107742 |
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.
Worse Than Slavery
Title | Worse Than Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Oshinsky |
Publisher | Free Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1997-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780684830957 |
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.
Worse Than Slavery
Title | Worse Than Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Oshinsky |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | 9780684822983 |
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.
Slavery by Another Name
Title | Slavery by Another Name PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Blackmon |
Publisher | Icon Books |
Total Pages | 429 |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1848314132 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Sugar in the Blood
Title | Sugar in the Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Stuart |
Publisher | Knopf |
Total Pages | 394 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307272834 |
From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.
Slavery Today
Title | Slavery Today PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Bales |
Publisher | Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 143 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0888997736 |
Discusses worldwide modern slavery and its effects, including the types of modern slavery, its relationship with globalization, and how the world can end slavery.
American Slavery
Title | American Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Kolchin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0809016303 |
"... updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay."--from publisher description.