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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Davis, Joseph E. (Joseph Emory), 1784-1870.
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Montgomery, Benjamin
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Montgomery, Isiah
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Davis, Joseph E. (Joseph Emory), 1784-1870 fast |
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Montgomery, Benjamin fast |
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Montgomery, Isiah fast |
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African Americans -- Mississippi -- Mound Bayou -- Economic conditions
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African Americans -- Mississippi -- Mound Bayou -- History
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Enslaved persons -- Mississippi -- Social conditions
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Plantation life -- Mississippi
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Economic conditions
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Plantation life
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
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Mound Bayou (Miss.) -- History
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Davis Bend (Miss.) -- History
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Mississippi
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Mississippi -- Davis Bend
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Mississippi -- Mound Bayou
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781617032233 |
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1617032239 |
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