{"product_id":"worse-than-slavery","title":"\"Worse Than Slavery\": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWorse Than Slavery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmortalized in blues songs and movies like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCool Hand Luke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Defiant Ones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"editorialReviews_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"editorialReviews\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"editorialReviews\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"editorialReviews_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"3roxew-qf0x1j-xkfajq-3nkvmo\" data-cel-widget=\"editorialReviews_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDavid M. Oshinsky, PhD, is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePolio: An American Story\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize–winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the Robert Kennedy Prize–winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“Worse Than Slavery”: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His articles and reviews appear regularly in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003cem\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"detailBullets_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"detailBullets\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"detailBullets\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"detailBullets_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"5ev19d-66dhfh-46oqr8-6j6weq\" data-cel-widget=\"detailBullets_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"detailBulletsWrapper_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"detailBullets\" data-template-name=\"detailBullets\" class=\"a-section feature detail-bullets-wrapper bucket\" data-cel-widget=\"detailBulletsWrapper_feature_div\"\u003e\u003chr aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"a-divider-normal bucketDivider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44505492095069,"sku":"9780684830957","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/worsethanslavery.jpg?v=1781457266","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/worse-than-slavery","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}