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Roughly bounded by the Illinois Central railroad tracks, E. College, Landrum, E. Main, and New Prospect Sts. 32°20′16″N 90°19′50″W / 32.3378°N 90.3306°W / 32.3378; -90.3306 ( East Clinton Historic
In the late 1840s, approximately 300 African-American freedmen from Ross's Prospect Hill Plantation emigrated to Mississippi-in-Africa. They were the largest single group of American colonists to migrate to Liberia. Ross's grandson and heir Isaac Ross Wade contested the will through years of litigation, during which time he occupied the plantation.
New Prospect may refer to: McEntyre, Alabama, an unincorporated community also known as New Prospect; New Prospect, South Carolina, an unincorporated community; New Prospect, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community; New Prospect Church, a church in Virginia; New Prospect, Illinois, a fictional town, the setting of the 2021 novel Crossroads by ...
The Prospect Hill Plantation was a former 5,000-acre plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. In the early 19th century, the plantation was owned by planter Isaac Ross of South Carolina, who enslaved African American people to farm cotton as a cash crop .
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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today is a 2004 non-fiction book by Alan Huffman, originally published by Gotham Books and re-issued in 2010 by University Press of Mississippi.
By the turn of the 20th century, a majority of the landowners in the Delta counties were black. Effectively African-Americans were disenfranchised by the new constitution of 1890; the loss of political power added to their economic problems associated with the financial Panic of 1893. Unable to gain credit, many of the first generations of ...