Over the next few years, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History aims to revitalize some of the state's most ...

The Delta plantation system started in the 19th ... the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta ...

Hundreds of New Orleans plantations used to line the Mississippi River throughout Louisiana. Now there are few, mostly ...

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and by the early 1900s he controlled plantations exceeding 20,000 acres. LeRoy Percy. Library of Congress. LeRoy Percy may have been born into Mississippi Delta aristocracy, but by the time he ...