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] /

In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attempt to recover a runaway slave woman and her four children. Most Americans, even those with a penchant for the nation's history, have never heard of...

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Main Author: Huffman, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010
Subjects:
Ross family.
Slave rebellions > Mississippi > Jefferson County > History > 19th century.
Plantation life > Mississippi > Jefferson County > History > 19th century.
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.
African Americans > Liberia > Biography.
Jefferson County (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Liberia > Biography.
Biography
Biographies.
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