title: Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
author: WilliamJames Hull Hoffer
description: "Hoffer has produced an accessible and informative book that will enable instructors and students to more completely understand the factors leading up to <i>Plessy V. Ferguson</i>, the social and political zeitgeist of the time, and the enduring legacy of the case."<i><b>Law and Politics Book Review</b></i>
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  # “Worse Than Slavery”
  
  
  PARCHMAN FARM AND THE ORDEAL OF JIM CROW JUSTICE
  
  
  DAVID M. OSHINSKY
  
  
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  Copyright © 1996 by David Oshinsky
  
  
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  **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**
  
  
  Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
  
  
  Worse than slavery: Parchman farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice/ David M.
  Oshinsky.
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
  
  1\. Mississippi State Penitentiary—History. 2. Criminal justice,
  Administration of—Missi