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Parchman Farm Prison 1975
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A short video on the infamous Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary), the Mississippi Blues Trail marker is located at the Parchman main entrance. • Famous inmates include: • Son House: He was incarcerated at Parchman Farm in the late 1920s for a period after a conviction related to a shooting. • Charlie Patton: Often regarded as one of the fathers of the Delta blues, Charlie Patton spent some time at Parchman Farm in the 1920s, having been arrested for a variety of offenses. His time in prison influenced his music and lyrics, which reflected the struggles of African Americans in the South. • Bukka White: the influential Delta blues guitarist and singer, was incarcerated there in the 1940s after being arrested for assault. • Robert Johnson: Though there are no direct records of Johnson being an inmate at Parchman Farm, there are rumors and legends surrounding his time spent in prison, including speculation that he may have had brief stints there. • I don't make anything editing and putting these videos together so please support the channel with the link here if you can its greatly appreciated! https://tr.ee/vDvH8nOpUB • While living at MSP, many African-American inmates sang work chants, a tradition traced to West Africa. Work chants were used by farm laborers to pace their work. While inmates worked, a leader called the chant, with other inmates following him. One song includes a story of an inmate swimming through the Sunflower River to confuse bloodhounds, verses showcasing prisoners who return hoes to their commanding captain and refuse to continue working, and a story of a beautiful woman named Rosie who waits outside the prison boundary. William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease, said that for all of these inmates, music was a means to survive within the prison's grim world. • Folk song collectors John and Alan Lomax visited Parchman Farm in 1933, during a recording trip across the Southern states of the US. Lomax wrote that they recorded a prisoner singing: • Ask my cap'n, how could he stand to see me cry • He said you low down nigger, I can stand to see you die • Reflecting on the significance of the singing he had heard in Parchman, Alan Lomax later wrote: • I had to face that here were the people that everyone else regarded as the dregs of society, dangerous human beings, brutalized and from them came the music which I thought was the finest thing I'd ever hear coming out of my country. They made Walt Whitman look like a child. They made Carl Sandburg, who sang these songs, look like a bloody amateur. These people were poetic and musical and they had something terribly important to say. • Throughout MSP's history, it was referred to as the prison without walls due to the dispersed camps within its property. Hugh Ferguson, the director of public affairs of MSP, said that the prison is not like Alcatraz, because it is not centralized in one or several main buildings. Instead MSP consists of several prison camps spread out over a large area, called units . Each unit serves a specific segment of the prison population, and each unit is surrounded by walls with barbed tape. • The perimeter of the overall Parchman property has no fencing. The prison property, located on flat farmland of the Mississippi Delta, has almost no trees. Ferguson said that a potential escapee would have no place to hide. Richard Rubin, author of Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South, said that MSP's environment is so inhospitable for escape that prisoners working in the fields are not chained to one another, and one overseer supervises each gang. A potential escapee could wander for days without leaving the MSP property. • Throughout MSP's history, most prisoners have worked in the fields. Historically, prisoners worked for ten hours per day, six days per week. In previous eras prisoners lived in long, single-story buildings made of bricks and lumber produced on-site; the inmate housing units were often called cages . Prison officials selected prisoners they deemed trustworthy and made them into armed guards; the prisoners were named trustee guards and trustee shooters . Most male inmates did farm labor; others worked in the brickyard, cotton gin, prison hospital, and sawmill. Women worked in the sewing room, making clothes, bed sheets, and mattresses. They also canned vegetables and ran the laundry. On Sundays prisoners attended religious services and participated in baseball games, with teams formed on the basis of the camps. • Throughout its history, Parchman Farm had a reputation of being one of the toughest prisons in the United States. • https://linktr.ee/blues.in.colour • #colourised #bluesincolour #blues #bluesmusic #mississippiblues #sonhouse #charliepatton
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