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Mississippi in Africa
Mississippi in Africa
Author: Alan Huffman
The gripping story of two hundred freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony—where the colonists’ repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence When a wealthy Mississippi cotton planter named Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781592401000
ISBN-10: 1592401007
Publication Date: 1/13/2005
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Gotham
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 1
While this book illuminated a part of American history few of us were taught in grade school history classes (among so many other parts of American history not taught, it fell short of my expectations.
I wanted to learn more about who these people were who chose to go to impoverished Africa rather than stay in the states enslaved. Who they were, why they chose this option, how it felt to them when they arrived and saw it was not going to be easy.
Instead this book is more of a geneolgy of two families and the writers quest to find them. Not as interesting to me.
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