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Isaiah Thornton Montgomery bought the plantations at the end of the Civil War and became one of the biggest cotton planters in Mississippi

Isaiah Thornton Montgomery bought the plantations at the end of the Civil War and became one of the biggest cotton planters in Mississippi

Isaiah Thornton Montgomery was born enslaved on May 21, 1847 on the Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend, an area along the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi to Benjamin Thornton and Mary Lewis Montgomery. Hurricane Plantation was owned by Joseph E. Davis, older brother of future Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis. At the beginning of […]