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Mississippi in Africa / Alan Huffman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huffman, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave rebellions--Mississippi--Jefferson County--History--19th century.
- Slave rebellions.
- Plantation life--Mississippi--Jefferson County--History--19th century.
- Plantation life.
- Freed persons.
- Enslaved persons.
- Plantation owners.
- Wills.
- History.
- Jefferson County (Miss.)--Race relations.
- Jefferson County (Miss.).
- Ross family.
- Wills--Mississippi--Jefferson County--History--19th century.
- Plantation owners--Mississippi--Jefferson County--Biography.
- Enslaved persons--Mississippi--Jefferson County--Biography.
- Freed persons--Mississippi--Jefferson County--Biography.
- Jefferson County (Miss.)--Biography.
- Liberia--Biography.
- Liberia.
- Mississippi--Jefferson County.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- A lost chapter of American History--and its aftermath in the war-torn nation of Liberia today; "Mississippi in Africa interweaves a gripping narrative of slaves who voyaged from antebellum Mississippi to Africa and became slave-owners themselves, with in-depth reporting on the human cost of the long-running civil war in modern-day Liberia.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592400442
- OCLC:
- 52509415
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