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- Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University Press of Mississippi
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. v-vii
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-12
- Part I MISSISSIPPI
- pp. 13-14
- CHAPTER ONE
- pp. 15-22
- CHAPTER TWO
- pp. 23-30
- CHAPTER THREE
- pp. 31-42
- CHAPTER FOUR
- pp. 43-56
- CHAPTER FIVE
- pp. 57-70
- CHAPTER SIX
- pp. 71-82
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- pp. 83-94
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- pp. 95-102
- CHAPTER NINE
- pp. 103-116
- CHAPTER TEN
- pp. 117-128
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- pp. 129-138
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- pp. 139-144
- Part II LIBERIA
- pp. 145-146
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- pp. 147-150
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- pp. 151-168
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- pp. 169-178
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- pp. 179-194
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- pp. 195-208
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- pp. 209-216
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- pp. 217-232
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- pp. 233-242
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- pp. 243-260
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- pp. 261-272
- Part III COMMON GROUND
- pp. 273-274
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- pp. 275-280
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- pp. 281-302
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- pp. 307-312
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. 317-320
Additional Information
ISBN
9781604737547
Related ISBN(s)
9781604737530
MARC Record
OCLC
58797305
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No