Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
by David M. Oshinsky
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Author: David M. OshinskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-22
ISBN: 0684830957
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: "Justice" in Reconstruction-era Parchman Farm was anything but just
Summary: 5 Stars
David Oshinsky has utilized the stories of convicts who were sentenced to serve time at Parchman Farm in an effort to define the ordeal of Jim Crow Justice in Reconstruction-era Mississippi.
Oshinsky does not focus on the daily operations of the prison, but instead focuses on the intimate daily lives of the prisoners, including those that were promoted to "trusties", and served as guards over the other prisoners (armed guards, no less).
There is no doubt that "justice" in this era was anything but just - as revealed in the book, a large portion of the prisoners at this particular facility were black males, and were often subjected to prison time for minimal offenses against property or the state - offenses that would not land any white person in prison, much less a labor camp such as Parchman Farm.
I think that David Oshinsky has demonstrated a great command of the subject material in this work & has shown how the racism of the era permeated down into the justice system and how the black men sentenced to serve time at Parchman were indeed subjected to a fate "Worse Than Slavery".
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