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Moving to Mississippi?
“Alabama’s got me so upset, Tennessee makes me lose my rest, and everybody knows
about Mississippi goddamn!” Nina Simone’s famous civil rights song sums up the recent
history of the Magnolia State pretty accurately – but how did it get that way?
When the French settled the Mississippi Delta in the late eighteenth century, they
found a territory rich with Native American history. Apart from taking the name
of the river – which means “Great River”– from the Ojibwe tribe, their main interest
was to drive the natives out as quickly as possible. In their place, they imported
huge numbers of African slaves, on whose toil the riches of the state were built.
The twentieth state to join the Union in 1817, it quickly became a centre of cotton
production; the plantation owners grew very wealthy thanks to the high price of
cotton, the high fertility of the rich alluvial soil and their vast numbers of slaves.
(In 1860 there were less than one hundred free coloured people in the state.)
By the outbreak of the Civil War, Mississippi was the fifth richest state in the
Union. The Reconstruction forced the state legislature to enfranchise the former
slaves, and although constant attempts were made to reverse their rights, by the
turn of the twentieth century about two thirds of the Delta lands belonged to black
farmers. Desperately poor, without any of the resources that were available to their
white counterparts, they were often forced to extend their debts simply in order
to survive: by 1910 about half of them had lost their lands. Liberty had not made
an enormous difference to their situation.
Around this time, the state started to pass Jim Crow laws, which mandated segregation.
Along with their poverty and the increased Ku Klux Klan presence, these laws fired
many thousands of African-Americans to migrate north in search of work and better
treatment. The civil rights battles of the 1960s were particularly vicious here:
although a great deal of work was done to educate the remaining African-Americans
about their voting rights, several of the most notorious lynchings happened here.
The state only officially ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlaws slavery,
in 1995. Mississippi’s complex history has generated great storytellers, including
Nobel Prize-winner William Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams and novelist
Alice Walker.
Over half of the state is covered by wild trees, mostly pines but including hickories,
pecans, oaks and cottonwoods. Lumber is a prevalent industry, although cotton is
still more important. Soybeans are the second largest crop but the typical southern
crops of sugar cane, sweet potatoes and peanuts are also found here in large quantities.
Recently, there has been a diversification into the manufacturing industries.
Five thousand square miles of flood plain, the Delta is a land of scorching sun,
parched earth, flooding creeks and thickets of bone-dry evergreens. Notable towns
include Clarksdale, the true birthplace of the Blues, which has been home to musicians
including John Lee Hooker, Ike Turner and Sam Cooke. The Sunflower River Blues and
Gospel Festival is held every August and the Delta Blues Museum is a great place
to learn more. South of the Delta, the baking earth gives way to rich woodland,
hiding some of the prettiest towns in the South. Natchez is the oldest permanent
settlement on the river and retains many of its antebellum mansions.
Finally, in the north of the state, is the ultimate holiday destination: Graceland.
The King was born just down the road in Tupelo but he settled in Holly Springs and
that’s where you can visit the extraordinary museum of his life.
Ole Miss: she’s impossible to categorize.
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