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The Pursuit of a Dream
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hermann, Janet Sharp. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Pursuit of a Dream |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Preface; I: JOSEPH DAVIS HAS A DREAM; II: FEDERAL OFFICERS USURP THE DREAM; III: BENJAMIN MONTGOMERY SEEKS TO IMPLEMENT THE DREAM; IV: ISAIAH MONTGOMERY REVIVES THE DREAM; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Montgomery, Isiah. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00102809 |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Montgomery, Benjamin. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00102808 |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Davis, Joseph E. |q (Joseph Emory), |d 1784-1870 |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00275463 |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Montgomery, Isiah. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Montgomery, Benjamin. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Davis, Joseph E. |q (Joseph Emory), |d 1784-1870. |
| 650 | 7 | |a Slaves |x Social conditions. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01120577 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Plantation life. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01065779 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a African Americans |x Economic conditions. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00799599 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a African Americans. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z United States |x State & Local |x South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Vie dans les plantations |z Mississippi. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Esclaves |z Mississippi |x Conditions sociales. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |z Mississippi |z Mound Bayou |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |z Mississippi |z Mound Bayou |x Economic conditions. | |
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| 651 | 7 | |a Mississippi |z Davis Bend. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01242427 | |
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| 651 | 0 | |a Mound Bayou (Miss.) |x History. | |
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