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Worse Than Slavery

David M. Oshinsky

How did a Mississippi prison farm keep alive so much of slavery's system after slavery was abolished?

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Author
David M. Oshinsky

Why read it

  • You will see how a legal system can bring back old forms of forced labor under a new cover
  • You will learn why reform of an unjust institution comes slowly and can bring new problems
  • You will understand how race and punishment became bound together in the South, and why that history still matters for a divided nation

Who it is for

  • Readers following debates on prisons and punishment
  • Students of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South
  • Blues and Southern literature fans curious about Parchman's legend

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. PART ONE After Slavery, Before Parchman
  3. CHAPTER ONE Emancipation
  4. CHAPTER TWO The Mississippi Plan
  5. CHAPTER THREE American Siberia
  6. CHAPTER FOUR The White Chief
  7. PART TWO The Parchman Era
  8. CHAPTER FIVE The Birth and the Birthplace
  9. CHAPTER SIX Parchman Farm
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN The Other Parchman: White Men, Black Women
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT Going Home
  12. CHAPTER NINE Executioner’s Song
  13. CHAPTER TEN A Farm with Slaves
  14. Epilogue

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