Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi''s antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi''s past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slave...