The Pursuit of a Dream

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This fascinating history set in the Reconstruction South is a testament to African-American resilience, fortitude, and independence. It tells of three attempts to create an ideal community on the river bottom lands at Davis Bend south of Vicksburg. There Joseph Davis's effort to establish a coo...

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Autor principal: Hermann, Janet Sharp
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Montgomery, Isiah.
Montgomery, Benjamin.
Davis, Joseph E. > (Joseph Emory), > 1784-1870
Davis, Joseph E. > (Joseph Emory), > 1784-1870.
Slaves > Social conditions.
Plantation life.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Vie dans les plantations > Mississippi.
Esclaves > Mississippi > Conditions sociales.
Plantation life > Mississippi.
Slaves > Mississippi > Social conditions.
African Americans > Mississippi > Mound Bayou > History.
African Americans > Mississippi > Mound Bayou > Economic conditions.
Mississippi > Mound Bayou.
Mississippi > Davis Bend.
Mississippi.
Davis Bend (Miss.) > History.
Mound Bayou (Miss.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This fascinating history set in the Reconstruction South is a testament to African-American resilience, fortitude, and independence. It tells of three attempts to create an ideal community on the river bottom lands at Davis Bend south of Vicksburg. There Joseph Davis's effort to establish a cooperative community among the slaves on his plantation was doomed to fail as long as they remained in bondage. During the Civil War the Yankees tried with limited success to organize the freedmen into a model community without trusting them to manage their own affairs. After the war the intrepid Benjamin.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781617032233

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