The Delta plantation system started in the 19th ... the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta ...

and by the early 1900s he controlled plantations exceeding 20,000 acres. LeRoy Percy. Library of Congress. LeRoy Percy may have been born into Mississippi Delta aristocracy, but by the time he ...

From the plantations of 19th century Mississippi to the steel mills of 20th century Youngstown to the board rooms of any major 21st century metropolis, work has long been a defining trait of the black ...

This spring the Lakeport Plantation Museum, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, will host a reading retreat focusing ...