Since the Mississippi Delta was the last area of ... what they owed from any earnings made in the field. Since the plantation owners kept track of the calculations, rarely would sharecroppers ...

Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the wealth to be made by speculating in land newly acquired from ...

Farmers planted large parcels along the Mississippi River stretching ... vital to the region’s economy. Plantation tours ...