Joseph Emory Davis
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title:
Joseph Emory Davis
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Joseph Emory Davis was an American lawyer who became one of the wealthiest planters in Mississippi in the antebellum era; he owned thousands of acres of land and was among the nine men in Mississippi who owned more than 300 slaves. He was the elder brother of Jefferson Davis and acted as his surrogate father for several years. The younger Davis became a politician, U.S. Senator, and later President of the Confederacy. In the 1820s, Joseph Davis developed the Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend, M
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American lawyer and plantation owner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Emory_Davis
date created:
2013-03-21T01:52:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:48:30Z
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