{"product_id":"worse-than-slavery-9780684830957","title":"Worse Than Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, \u003ci\u003eWorse Than Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era--and beyond.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImmortalized in blues songs and movies like \u003ci\u003eCool Hand Luke\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Defiant Ones\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684830957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/25\/1997 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David M. Oshinsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639943393436,"sku":"9780684830957","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3d56b323-de51-4485-aa7b-e209a9bad5b4.jpg?v=1607546389","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/worse-than-slavery-9780684830957","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}