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Most down to earth black folk I’ve ever met came from Alabama & Mississippi. I wouldn’t mind moving there
Has Anyone Else Heard That The Roughest and Most Crude Slaves Went to Mississippi?
The steel mills were still running in the 70s and 80s so I am not sure what period of time that you are referring to. The last steel mill didn't close until 1992. However, none of that had anything to do with Black people. It had to do with market forces, because if steel could be produced cheaper overseas then that is what happened.
A lot of Black people went on to work in government like for the post office, police department, bus operators, fire department, sanitation on and on and on. A lot of those people kids went to college. I think that people are confusing hood nikkas with regular Black people.
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They were closed breh.
The steel mill on 107th and Vincennes was closed in the 80s breh.. A rail road track ran down Beverly to the steel mill on 75th and Ashland.. Matter of fact, the houses on Beverly drive from 103rd to 95th use to be where the tracks were.. All those was closed before 92.. I remember when a lot of the streets was paved in bricks.. I've been in Chicago a very long time..
Didn't you just state what I stated? I wrote that they were still open into the 70s and the 80s and the last steel mill closed in 92 (I think it was southworks).. Then you wrote that they closed in the 80s. I am pretty sure that we are saying the same thing. I don't know how long you have been in Chicago, but I finally moved from there in 2016. By that time my family had lived in Chicago since the 40s.
Im sure we are..
But what im saying is when shyt dried up in Chicago, people continued to move from south to north.. At that point, all that was left was the dope game..
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The term being “sold up river” literally referenced the transporting of slaves from Louisville to Mississippi up the the Ohio and Mississippi river. The period around the 1850’s was when the upland South states like Kentucky, , Tennessee, VA started selling their slaves to the deep south particularly Mississippi. This was a common threat to rebellious slaves.
I do believe so.. I think they had a large prison uprising in 2020..
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Them folk in Mississippi my people. Some of my ancestors started in Columbus, and I ended up moving down there from NC. They accepted me when I was a young boy that moved down there. I love the Sipp, from the Coast, to Jack Town, Starkville, all the way up to Oxford
Interesting. Well I've heard this a few different times and this would have came from blacks that were more educated than most on American history.
The conversation in question was from a black woman from Chicago who grew up well-to-do. She married a man from South Carolina from an equally well-to-do family. She was jokingly recalling how when she went to meet his family in South Carolina, she went down there kind of snobbish but was quickly put into place by her would-be-then mother in-law. Once her mother in-law found out that her people were from Mississippi, she snidely quipped "well you know, the rougher coarser slaves were sent to Mississippi." This was from a woman from South Carolina. Maybe it was just an old-time myth, but the thought was that black families from Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas were better than the black families from the Lower South because they came from the more desired slaves who were purchased there first, with the leftovers being sent to the Lower South. Again, I meant to look into this because I've heard this before. I didn't think it was completely outside the realm of possibility seeing that, for instance, England sent its undersirables to Australia and sometimes the Colonies. I didn't know if that practice carried over into the slave trade. Some people are even remarking that they heard of that happening with Jamaica.
You got a point. But although it wasn't 'officially' Mississippi, slavery had been in that territory for much longer. Slavery began in Natchez in 1719. In fact, there were a number of slave rebellions throughout the 1700's in Natchez.
Yes, this was called the "Second Middle Passage".
But Mississippi became the wealthiest state of the Confederacy. I've always thought the the whites in Mississippi and Alabama were dirt poor because they relied more on the slave economy. When slavery was abolished, they had the most to lose, which is why they fought so hard for it. A stat came out saying 50% of whites in Mississippi owned slaves, although assuredly, not all of them were wealthy, with most probably owning only one or two.
Natchez had more millionaires per capita then anywhere in the south. Natchez, along with Mobile, rivaled even Richmond and Charleston at one point.
Yeah, well even many of the white folks were from Mississippi.
For my own family, yes. My people were from Tippah and Pontotoc Counties on one side of my father's line. The family that owned my ancestors had two plantations that they had their slaves traveling in between. They were originally from North Carolina.
On the other side of my father's family, they were from the Mississippi/Louisiana border, in Pike, Amite, Tangipahoa Counties. The families that owned them were from South Carolina. We have the wills, slave schedules, etc.. that even name individual enslaved family members.
50% of white Mississippians owned slaves so blacks with ties to Mississippi will be from all over. Not from any specific region or plantation.
Do you have any sources with respect to sugar cane plantations being worse than cotton plantations?
