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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As European settlers began to explore the lower Mississippi Valley and displace ...

From the site of the nation's largest slave revolt, the Banner sisters continue a legacy of environmental and cultural resistance.