Mississippi in AfricaThe Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
Alan Huffman - 2005-01-13 (first published in 2004)
The gripping story of two hundred freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony—where the colonistsÂ' 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 be liquidated and th...