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  2. History of slavery in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Natchez to New Orleans: Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River by A. Persac (1858) showing cotton plantations of Mississippi along the Mississippi River, Natchez to state line 1860 US census, Mississippi, number of slaves per enslaver Former slave quarters at Jefferson Davis' plantation Brierfield in Mississippi, drawn by A.R. Waud, etching published 1866 in Harper's Weekly

  3. List of plantations in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

  4. Edward McGehee - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, McGehee owned a textile factory on his plantation, with about 100 slaves working in it. [3] [5] [6] [7] In 1831, he purchased the West Feliciana Rail Road Company in Louisiana. [3] [5] [8] Map of Liberia in the 1830s, where the Mississippi colony and other state-sponsored colonies are identified.

  5. Plantations aren't the only destinations tied to slavery ...

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    Of course, slavery wasn’t limited to plantations. ... He noted that 52% of the city’s colonial population was Black and enslaved. Seals portrays one such historic figure, ...

  6. History of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the Civil War, the great majority of blacks were slaves living on plantations with 20 or more fellow slaves, many in much larger concentrations. While some had been born in Mississippi, many had been transported to the Deep South in a forcible migration through the domestic slave trade from the Upper South. Some were shipped from ...

  7. Stephen Duncan - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi.He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.

  8. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...

  9. Mississippi-in-Africa - Wikipedia

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    Map of Liberia in the 1830s, where the Mississippi colony and other state-sponsored colonies are identified. Mississippi-in-Africa was a colony on the Pepper Coast (West Africa) founded in the 1830s by the Mississippi Colonization Society of the United States and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves.