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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 […]

The Roots of American Popular Music (Stolen Black Culture)

The Roots of American Popular Music (Stolen Black Culture)

This is a short video that I did for my Rhetoric, Forgetting and Memory class. My paper is about American Popular Culture and how people have forgotten how African American Culture has heavily influenced current popular culture. (this is video is only the short music aspect of my project) . I don’t hate white people […]