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Author Hermann, Janet Sharp

Title The Pursuit of a Dream
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
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
Summary 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
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Subject Davis, Joseph E. (Joseph Emory), 1784-1870.
Montgomery, Benjamin
Montgomery, Isiah
SUBJECT Davis, Joseph E. (Joseph Emory), 1784-1870 fast
Montgomery, Benjamin fast
Montgomery, Isiah fast
Subject African Americans -- Mississippi -- Mound Bayou -- Economic conditions
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Mound Bayou -- History
Enslaved persons -- Mississippi -- Social conditions
Plantation life -- 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
SUBJECT Mound Bayou (Miss.) -- History
Davis Bend (Miss.) -- History
Subject Mississippi
Mississippi -- Davis Bend
Mississippi -- Mound Bayou
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781617032233
1617032239