Worse Than Slavery - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Free PressISBN-13:9780684830957ISBN-10:684830957UPC:9780684830957Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Penology, Discrimination, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanAward:1997 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner - Grand Prize AwardSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCZQ3MQ4N0
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Free PressISBN-13:9780684830957ISBN-10:684830957UPC:9780684830957Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Penology, Discrimination, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanAward:1997 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner - Grand Prize AwardSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCZQ3MQ4N0
Oshinsky, David M.: - David 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 Polio: An American Story. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning...
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🏆 1997 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner - Grand Prize Award
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