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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hermann, Janet Sharp
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Subjects:
Davis, Joseph E. > (Joseph Emory), > 1784-1870.
Montgomery, Benjamin.
Montgomery, Isiah.
Davis, Joseph E. > (Joseph Emory), > 1784-1870
Montgomery, Benjamin
Montgomery, Isiah
African Americans > Mississippi > Mound Bayou > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Mississippi > Mound Bayou > History.
Enslaved persons > Mississippi > Social conditions.
Plantation life > Mississippi.
Esclaves > Mississippi > Conditions sociales.
Vie dans les plantations > Mississippi.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans
African Americans > Economic conditions
Plantation life
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Mound Bayou (Miss.) > History.
Davis Bend (Miss.) > History.
Mississippi
Mississippi > Davis Bend
Mississippi > Mound Bayou
History
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