Worse than Slavery
Subtitle: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
Publisher: Free Press; Free Press Paperbacks published by Simon & Schuster
Published: April 22, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780684830957
Subjects: American history; Black studies; Social Science; History - General History; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Prisoners; History: American; USA; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Penology; Social Science / African-American Studies; Administration of criminal justice; Criminal justice, Administration of; History; Mississippi
First sentence: In the tumultuous summer of 1861, a Mississippi planter named William Nugent rode off to war with a regiment from Vicksburg.