Has Anyone Else Heard That The Roughest and Most Crude Slaves Went to Mississippi?

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There is truth to the migrational movements from the Carolinas to MS/LA/AL. Most of the white slave owning families that settled in Lower Mississippi and Northern Louisiana were from the Carolinas and most assuredly brought their slaves with them. And most likely still had business ties to the Carolinas and would regularly buy slaves from them so your grandmother is probably right.

Well, I took her word for it. She was and still is (RIP Momo!!!) my heroine! Why? Because she killed a bytch ass white devil who put hands on my G-Pa when he was a lil boy.

She said she had to hide in a cemetery and other spots because the Klan was after her. One of the reasons why she moved to California in the mid-late 40s. The rest was history!

A true Locstress!!
 

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I was just reminded of this after hearing a woman retell a story and mention it.

Is there historical truth to this?

Being from Chicago and a son of Mississippi, there is an aggression that black people have in Chicago, that I haven't really seen anywhere else. Chicago nikkas go from 0-100 at the slightest provocation.

I even remember visiting a couple of HBCUs that traditionally get a lot of Chicago folks and finding out 95% of the drama on those campuses were started by Chicago folks.

So is there any evidence that Mississippi got the slaves that nobody wanted?

The saying goes that Virginia and the Carolinas got the 'choice' slaves. And by the time the ships got to Louisiana and Mississippi, the only thing that was left were the rejects.

Breh who told you all of that crazy shyt? You don't want to listen to those fools anymore and on top of that those nikkas don't know anything about US history

First of all Mississippi did not even enter the union until the time of the Louisiana Purchase, which was in 1803. The USA bought Mississippi from France after France lost their war in Haiti. Virginia and Carolina were part of original 13 colonies, with Virginia being a colony in the 1607 and Carolina becoming a colony in 1629 and a different charter was issued in 1712. So Virginia and Carolina were around for almost 200 years, before anyone ever even heard of Mississippi. So tell those nikkas to do some research.

The second thing is that the Black people from Mississippi ancestors are actually from Virginia and the Carolinas. When Mississippi opened up White people needed slaves to work the land so they purchased slaves from the slave owners in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. That episode in history was called being "Sold down the River." The slaves hated it, because they knew that they were going to be separated from their families on the plantations in the East and they also knew that the slave owners in places like Mississippi were some poor broke ass White trash that could not afford many slaves so they were going to work the few slaves that they could afford to death in order to make a profit. So it was basically a death sentence to be sold into the deep south. Read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to understand what drove some slaves to run away. They didn't want to be sold into the deep South. Haven't you noticed the broke ass crackas that live in places like Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas? Well now imagine what their broke ass ancestors looked like.

What Black people in Mississippi did face was crushing poverty and violent ass White people. So that is the shytty stuff that they took with them to Chicago during the Great Migration and in some cases some of those folks took to the violence. One final point is that not every person that settled in Chicago was from Mississippi. Some where from Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas and Alabama.
 

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Have you gone back far enough to pinpoint the counties and plantations many Chicago-via-MS people have ties to? Reason I ask is that although there were no 'better' systems of slavery, there were definitely ones that were worse. Sugar plantations were the absolute worst in terms of injuries, deaths, and conditions.

Some of the biggest rebellions occurred in colonies and regions where that was the cash crop. MS is associated with cotton, but the general gulf region produced the bulk of the sugar. Some of it had to come from MS.
 
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Breh who told you all of that crazy shyt? You don't want to listen to those fools anymore and on top of that those nikkas don't know anything about US history

First of all Mississippi did not even enter the union until the time of the Louisiana Purchase, which was in 1803. The USA bought Mississippi from France after France lost their war in Haiti. Virginia and Carolina were part of original 13 colonies, with Virginia being a colony in the 1607 and Carolina becoming a colony in 1629 and a different charter was issued in 1712. So Virginia and Carolina were around for almost 200 years, before anyone ever even heard of Mississippi. So tell those nikkas to do some research.

The second thing is that the Black people from Mississippi ancestors are actually from Virginia and the Carolinas. When Mississippi opened up White people needed slaves to work the land so they purchased slaves from the slave owners in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. That episode in history was called being "Sold down the River." The slaves hated it, because they knew that they were going to be separated from their families on the plantations in the East and they also knew that the slave owners in places like Mississippi were some poor broke ass White trash that could not afford many slaves so they were going to work the few slaves that they could afford to death in order to make a profit. So it was basically a death sentence to be sold into the deep south. Read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to understand what drove some slaves to run away. They didn't want to be sold into the deep South. Haven't you noticed the broke ass crackas that live in places like Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas? Well now imagine what their broke ass ancestors looked like.

What Black people in Mississippi did face was crushing poverty and violent ass White people. So that is the shytty stuff that they took with them to Chicago during the Great Migration and in some cases some of those folks took to the violence. One final point is that not every person that settled in Chicago was from Mississippi. Some where from Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas and Alabama.



great post, thanks for the info.
 

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Mississippi was the worst of the slave states If I remember correctly from what I read. Slaves would dread being sent “down south” :jbhmm:


Altho it stemmed from them having the most brutal of the cotton industry there

They dreaded being "Sold Down the River" to deep south plantations, because they were being separated from their families in the east. The other thing that the slaves hated was that the new owners were usually poor white trash. It was basically a death sentence, because the slave was going to be worked to death to help that white trash to make a dollar. They were literally going to work for dirt farmers.

The other thing to keep in mind is slavery only existed in Mississippi for a little over 62 years. The Louisiana Purchase occurred in 1803. The Civil War ended slavery in 1865.

Slavery in Virginia and the Carolinas lasted hundreds of years. I know that people hate DNA tests, but if a Black person from Mississippi took the Ancestry DNA test they would find out that their genetic communities are in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia and that lots of related cousins in those States. That is because that is the Black people in Mississippi are originally from.
 
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I was just reminded of this after hearing a woman retell a story and mention it.

Is there historical truth to this?

Being from Chicago and a son of Mississippi, there is an aggression that black people have in Chicago, that I haven't really seen anywhere else. Chicago nikkas go from 0-100 at the slightest provocation.

I even remember visiting a couple of HBCUs that traditionally get a lot of Chicago folks and finding out 95% of the drama on those campuses were started by Chicago folks.

So is there any evidence that Mississippi got the slaves that nobody wanted?

The saying goes that Virginia and the Carolinas got the 'choice' slaves. And by the time the ships got to Louisiana and Mississippi, the only thing that was left were the rejects.

I-55 runs from New Orleans.. Through Jackson. Through Memphis. And ends right in Chicago on I- 57 at Halsted Avenue on the Southside Chicago.. Its a running joke that country nikkas ruined Chicago..
 

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Nah chicago just always been an aggressive ass city

Most Mississippi people i met were chill.

Then again all the cities on that I 55 corridor have higher amounts of griminess than most of the country so you might be on to something.....
 

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I-55 runs from New Orleans.. Through Jackson. Through Memphis. And ends right in Chicago on I- 57 at Halsted Avenue on the Southside Chicago.. Its a running joke that country nikkas ruined Chicago..

Country nikkas did not ruin Chicago. Country nikkas were actually a vital cog in Chicago's industrial revolution. Their migration also led to a shift in political power, which is how African Americans were eventually elected as Black Mayors, Representatives, Senators and a Black President.

Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915–1950 – Digital Collections for the Classroom
Great Migration.
 
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Nah chicago just always been an aggressive ass city

Most Mississippi people i met were chill.

Then again all the cities on that I 55 corridor have higher amounts of griminess than most of the country so you might be on to something.....

Nah those cities along the I55 corridor were fugged up from the word go. Black people just moved into that shyt, but even before there was large migration into those areas there was already ethnic tension (Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc.) due to union jobs, slaughter houses, etc. Then laws were made to keep Black people from becoming upwardly mobile, which just made things even worse.
 

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Country nikkas did not ruin Chicago. Country nikkas were actually a vital cog in Chicago's industrial revolution. Their migration also led to a shift in political power, which is how African Americans eventually elected as Black Mayors, Representatives, Senators and a Black President.

Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915–1950 – Digital Collections for the Classroom
Great Migration.

Said it was a running joke.. However, those same steel mills closed soon after the great migration took place.. The pullman porters were first to make it up and notify those in the south of the opportunities. Now the discussion is what did the southern brehs do in Chicago when all the factory and steel mill jobs left?
 
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