When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from

Mississippi to Africa captures Collier's fourteen-year journey in unearthing the buried history of his maternal grandmother's family - a journey that took him b

In the years immediately following the Civil War_the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi_there was much debate ove

The story of Rose and Cicero learning to survive, falling in love in a grim time and refusing to become victims of the free enterprise spin put on freedom follo

From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta explores how West African standards of aesthetics and sociocultural traits have moved into mainstream American culture an