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The Pursuit of a Dream.

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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 coo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hermann, Janet Sharp
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Subjects:
Davis, Joseph E. > (Joseph Emory), > 1784-1870.
Montgomery, Benjamin.
Montgomery, Isiah.
African Americans > Mississippi > Mound Bayou > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Mississippi > Mound Bayou > History.
Enslaved persons > Mississippi > Social conditions.
Plantation life > Mississippi.
Mound Bayou (Miss.) > History.
Davis Bend (Miss.) > History.
Davis, Joseph E. > (Joseph Emory), > 1784-1870
African Americans.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
Plantation life.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Davis Bend.
Mississippi > Mound Bayou.
History.

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Call Number: F349.M6 H47 1999
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