Mississippi-in-Africa
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mississippi-in-africa-179-2520983
title:
Mississippi-in-Africa
text:
Mississippi-in-Africa was a colony on the Pepper Coast 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. In the late 1840s, some 300 former slaves from Prospect Hill Plantation and other Isaac Ross properties in Jefferson County, Mississippi, were the largest single group of emigrants to the new colony. Ross had freed the slaves in his will and provided for his plantation to be sold to pay f
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Private colony in present-day Liberia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi-in-Africa
date created:
2006-05-05T08:27:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T22:36:02Z
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13
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