The gripping story of two hundred freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony where the colonists repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence. When a wealthy Mississippi cotton planter named Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross s heirs contested the will for more than a decade in the state courts and legislature prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross s mansion to the ground but the will was.
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