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Freedom's Outpost: Mound Bayou and the Fight for Free Expression in Jim Crow Mississippi
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Freedom's Outpost tells the forgotten story of how self-reliance, enterprise, and an authentic respect for human dignity built a refuge of liberty in the heart of the Jim Crow South.
Founded by men once enslaved by Jefferson Davis’s brother, this is the story of a tiny town that became the prosperous seedbed of civil rights.
In 1887, two men who had been enslaved by Jefferson Davis’s brother founded a town entirely populated by African Americans in the Mississippi Delta.
It became something ...
Founded by men once enslaved by Jefferson Davis’s brother, this is the story of a tiny town that became the prosperous seedbed of civil rights.
In 1887, two men who had been enslaved by Jefferson Davis’s brother founded a town entirely populated by African Americans in the Mississippi Delta.
It became something ...