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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hermann, Janet Sharp
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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