Name: Parchman Farm: Mississippi's State Penitentiary in the 1930S (Images of America) (in English)
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Author: Kate Stewart
ISBN: 9781467128001

portada Parchman Farm: Mississippi's State Penitentiary in the 1930S (Images of America) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kate Stewart

Bryan King

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing (SC)

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.5 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781467128001

Edition No.

N/A

Synopsis "Parchman Farm: Mississippi's State Penitentiary in the 1930S (Images of America) (in English)"

In 1900, the Mississippi legislature appropriated funds to purchase approximately 4,000 acres of farmland in Sunflower County, the heart of the Delta. The state's aim was to establish the Mississippi State Penitentiary, commonly known as Parchman because of the hamlet where it is located. From its inception, the prison farm was designed to preserve the vestiges of the antebellum South. Legislators believed they had designed the ideal correctional institution because Parchman would turn a profit, preserve the planter culture, and keep the black population enslaved in the Jim Crow era. The 1930s represented a turning point in the life of the prison. During this time, the Depression caused a drop in profits, some political leaders initiated measures to improve the standards of care for the inmates, and the New Deal's Works Progress Administration Writers' Project brought musical historians to Parchman.

Kate Stewart

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Autora best seller cuyos libros han aparecido en las listas de más vendidos de USA Today, BuzzFeed, The New York Daily News, el Huffington Post y se han traducido a más de doce idiomas. Nativa de Texas, Kate vive con su marido Nick en Carolina del Norte, donde escribe romance contemporáneo, comedias románticas y suspense erótico.

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