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Author | : Alan Huffman |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1604737549 |
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When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.
Author | : Alan Huffman |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2011-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628469781 |
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When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.
Author | : Christopher M. Span |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469601338 |
Download From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans (mostly freedpeople) should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of social and economic mobility--in essence, full citizenship. Most northerners assisting freedpeople regarded such expectations as unrealistic and expected African Americans to labor under contract for those who had previously enslaved them and their families. Meanwhile, many white Mississippians objected to any educational opportunities for the former slaves. Christopher Span finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.
Author | : Melvin J. Collier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : 9780788474538 |
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Author | : Melvin J. Collier |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : 9781477486016 |
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Mississippi to Africa captures Collier's fourteen-year journey in unearthing the buried history of his maternal grandmother's family - a journey that took him back seven generations, from northern Mississippi to the Piedmont hills of South Carolina, and even back to a specific people and region in West Africa where his ancestry undoubtedly began. Trekking the paths of his ancestors and their displaced relatives before Emancipation (1863), this emotion-filled journey traversed down an intricate paper trail of federal, state, and local records, other public records, and oral histories, presented in a narrative style to inspire, entice, and propel readers into the fascinating world of genealogy and historical discoveries. Collier also uncovered the ways in which his ancestors ingeniously retained aspects of their African heritage. DNA technology confirmed his research findings and verified ancestral ties. The reader will gain many research tips and techniques along the journey.
Author | : Alan Huffman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2010-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781604737530 |
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Originally published: New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books, c2004.
Author | : Christian Pinnen |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2021-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496832906 |
Download Colonial Mississippi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. The eighteenth century receives much-deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. Early encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale.
Author | : Pascal Bokar Thiam |
Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, African |
ISBN | : 9781609278618 |
Download From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta explores how West African standards of aesthetics and sociocultural traits have moved into mainstream American culture and become social norms. This is an ideal text for use in related Jazz History, African Studies, Sociology, and History (16th-19th century and Harlem Renaissance) courses. I was curious to know why African Americans (and the country as a whole, for that matter) began clapping on beats two and four, and why we'd get dirty looks if we were caught clapping on the wrong beat. I had a desire to know why the identity of the music of our nation, with its majority population of European descent, had the musical textures, bent pitches, and blue notes of Africa. I wondered why a sense of swing developed here that was closer in syncopation to African culture than to the classical music of Vienna or the Paris Opera. And finally, I wanted to know why our nation's youth moved suggestively on the dance floor with their hips--movements that are closer in aesthetics to African dance than to ballet. The journey began on the banks of the mighty Niger River [Publisher description].
Author | : Eddy L. Harris |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780679742326 |
Download Native Stranger Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
When Eddy Harris went to Africa, he ended up learning a great deal about his own identity as a black American as well as witnessing both the splendor and squalor of the continent. From encounters with beggars and bureaucrats to a visit to Soweto and a hellish night in a Liberian jail, Harris evokes Africa with candor and vividness.
Author | : David J. Libby |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781604732009 |
Download Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A new look at the evolution of this frontier society and its unyielding grip on slavery