From Davis Bend to Mound Bayou
Sade Turnipseed, Executive Director / History Professor, Khafre, Inc / MVSU
Proposal Type
Panel
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- General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Material Culture
- Place
- Memory
Abstract
By studying the cotton plantation system of the Old South and operations owned by Joseph and Jefferson Davis, juxtaposed t o the self-determined agency of Benjamin Montgomery, and how Davis Bend became what was considered an “imagined community” in the historical township of Mound Bayou. Read More