We took our metal detectors to an 1850s plantation house in Mississippi—and things got weird fast. As we crawled beneath the ...

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 ...

the kind fieldworkers wore on Mississippi plantations. Over his left shoulder, a panther looms menacingly into view: This was justice stalking America. The magazine, according to my review of its ...

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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 ...