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Mississippi in Africa : The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia
Mississippi in Africa The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia
Author: Alan Huffman
The gripping story of two hundred freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony—where the colonists’ repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence. When a wealthy Mississippi cotton planter named Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781592400447
ISBN-10: 1592400442
Publication Date: 1/26/2004
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Gotham
Book Type: Hardcover
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