Tuesday, September 23, 2008

What was the Parchman Farm?

Click here to find out: Parchman Farm

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Block 3
So Boy willie, Lymon, Doaker and Wining Boy all served time in Prison. I wonder if this has to do something with a subject or theme. Must read on to find out.

Anonymous said...

A prison with a gas chamber for execution? Yikes! That most a have a really rough staying there for the boys in this play. Sounds like a pretty rough and scary place!

Brenda Shelton
Block 4

Anonymous said...

*oops i meant "must" not "most", sorry!

Anonymous said...

Katie Hollingsworth said... Oh boy scary!!

Anonymous said...

That's kind of ironic that the plantation was turned into a prison, what with all the slaves that were prisoners there.

Lauren MacDonald

Anonymous said...

i didn't think farms with slaves would have prisons!
Mandi Carlson

Anonymous said...

scary stuff!!!!
i think that it has an importance to the book.....it shows more of how they were unfairly treated.

Kaitlyn Mullaly

Anonymous said...

I think the poem or quatation on the page was quite interesting.

Oh listen you men, I don't mean no harm
If you wanna do good, you better stay off old Parchman Farm

We got to work in the mornin', just at dawn of day
Just at the settin' of the sun, that's when the work is done

Bukka White, "Parchman Farm Blues"

But I never thought farms had prisons.



Yadira Trujillo

Anonymous said...

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