They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...
the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...
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A new law permits the D.C. Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people.
“In 1874, the Mississippi legislature elected Bruce to the U.S. Senate, making him the second Black senator in American ...
Robert Clark, Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of ... A teacher and descendant of slaves, Clark was ostracized during his first years at the state Capitol, relegated to sitting solo at a ...
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