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  2. History of slavery in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Land in Mississippi was river bottomland rich in organic matter— "the Mississippi and Yazoo, the Tombigbee, Big Black, and the Pearl covered an area of over one-sixth of the entire state and offered unrivalled soil" [5] —and this land was primarily used to grow the highly valuable cash crop cotton produced with the labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved American laborers of African ...

  3. History of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.

  4. List of Mississippian sites - Wikipedia

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    A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]

  5. Battle of Grand Gulf - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological Report No. 8: The Confederate Magazine at Fort Wade Grand Gulf, Mississippi, Excavations 1980–1981 (PDF) (Report). Mississippi Department of Archives and History. OCLC 9566064. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2014.

  6. Mississippi Historical Society - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi Historical Society was relaunched for a third time in 1952 and has maintained itself in continuous operation ever since. [3] For a brief year between 1952 and 1953 MHS was active, falling once more into dormancy until its most successful upstart in 1964 with the production of J. F. H. Claiborne’s book "Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State". [7]

  7. Old Augusta Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The Old Augusta Historic Site contains the remnants of Augusta, [3] Mississippi, a town that was founded along the Leaf River in 1812 and abandoned between 1902 and 1906. [2] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1999.

  8. Mississippi Secession Convention - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] The convention was held in the Mississippi House of Representatives building in the state capitol, Jackson, Mississippi. [2] J. L. Power was the convention reporter. Power & Cadwallader printed an account of the proceedings. [1] The New York Times reported on the convention's plans to secede. [5]

  9. Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles (70,000 km 2) inundated in depths of up to 30 feet (9 m) over the course of several months in early 1927. The period cost of the damage has been estimated to be between $246 million and $1 billion, which ranges ...