Old Main (Pennsylvania State University) Old Main Completed 1867 (original structure) 1930 (current structure) Owner Pennsylvania State University Technical details Floor count 4 + Clock Tower When was Mississippi State’s Old Main built? 1880Old Main History Old Main Dormitory was the first dormitory on campus and was thought, in its […]
The movie Lincoln inspired a Mississippi citizen to push the state to correct a clerical error that kept the state from officially ratifying the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. When did Mississippi accept the 13th Amendment? March 16, 1995After Failing in 1865 to Ratify the 13th Amendment, Mississippi Finally Ratifies […]
There were twenty-one known Indian tribes in the area of present day Mississippi between the years 1500 and 1800. Most were small, numbering only a few hundred, and many did not survive the territorial conflicts between French and English allied groups of the 18th century. What tribes were native to […]
The fabled Underground Railroad was not available for all, especially residents of Mississippi and other Deep South states, where the journey to free territory meant passing through several other slave states. Was the Mississippi River part of the Underground Railroad? As a major city in a slave state just across […]
Most enslaved persons coming to Alabama did so through the domestic slave trade, meaning they traveled from other states into Alabama rather than coming from outside the United States. Where did Alabama slaves come from? Most of the settlers came from the nearby states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and […]
How did Mississippi law limit the activities of slaves? Name four ways. If a slave left the plantation for an extended period of time, they were required to have a pass stating the purpose of their trip, where they were going, and how long they would stay. They had to […]
Virginia. That said, in 1790, the state with the largest population of free blacks was Virginia. The era of the Early Republic in the U.S. saw the formal abolition of slavery in most northern states as well as the creation of the Northwest Territory, where slavery was outlawed from the […]
For the African-American community, the Mississippi River alternated between liberator and oppressor, informing the social construct of an identity that was at times lamented, celebrated, demeaned and feared. How did the Mississippi river help slaves? As described by the National Parks Service, the Mississippi River was a major escape route […]
The main location was the Evergreen Plantation in Edgard near New Orleans, used first for scenes early in the film where Django and Schultz track down the criminal Brittle Brothers. Later it also features as the nightmarish ‘Candyland’, a vast plantation run by the brutal Calvin Candie. Was Calvin Candie […]
Accounts by La Salle and Marquette, late 1600s french explorers, mention that the Chippewa Indians called the river the “Missi Sippi,” or “large flowing water.” In the first decade of the 1700s, French governor D’Iberville in Mobile referred to the Mississippi as the St. Where did the name Mississippi come […]
European-American settlers did not enter the territory in great number until the early 19th century. Some European-American settlers would bring many enslaved Africans with them to serve as laborers to develop cotton plantations along major riverfronts. When did the Europeans arrive in Mississippi? In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European […]
This important route and allowed for travel along the Mississippi River for hunters, merchants, and early white settlers. After 1793, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin changed the way cotton was produced and European settlers flooded the Natchez Region to establish large cotton plantations. Were there plantations in Mississippi? 7 Historic Plantations […]
Mississippi’s poverty rate of more than 20 percent is among the key factors in a new study which found the state is the nation’s worst in which to live. NEW YORK — Mississippi has the nation’s highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate and lowest life expectancy. Is Mississippi the worst […]
Haiti. It was the first country to do so. The next year, Haiti published its first constitution. Article 2 stated: “Slavery is forever abolished.” By abolishing slavery in its entirety, Haiti also abolished the slave trade, unlike the two-step approach of the European nations and the United States. Who first […]
The antebellum period refers to the time in MS before the Civil War (1817 – 1861). MS will develop rapidly in many ways during the Antebellum Period. What is an antebellum slavery? In the history of the Southern United States, the Antebellum Period (from Latin: ante bellum, lit. ‘before the […]