Red Tears

Prudence Mims flourished as the youngest daughter of a prominent planter in the wilderness of the Tensaw Delta in present-day Alabama. The American Revolution ended forty years before and a steady stream of settlers from the former British Colonies flooded into the southern frontier wilderness. Samuel Mims and his brother David, came to the Mississippi Territory as Indian Traders during the American Revolution acquiring a land grant from the governor of Spanish West Florida and for years th...