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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today

Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alan HuffmanPublish date:2010-07-08Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781604737530ISBN-10:1604737530UPC:9781604737530Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Slavery, Africa, United StatesBook Topic:West, State & LocalSize:8.98 x 6.06 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCJCGS0C9D
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781604737530ISBN-10:1604737530UPC:9781604737530Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Slavery, Africa, United StatesBook Topic:West, State & LocalSize:8.98 x 6.06 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCJCGS0C9D
Alan Huffman is a freelance journalist and author of several nonfiction books including Lines Were Drawn: Rembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School, Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia, and Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He has appeared on NPR and numerous other radio shows, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, PBS, Fox News, and other national TV shows
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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