Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (1874–1924) was born on Davis Bend, a Mississippi plantation was owned by Joseph Davis. Isaiah’s father, Benjamin Montgomery, managed the Davis plantation until the close of the Civil War (1865), at which time he was able to purchase it. And on that land, a community of freedmen prospered. Agricultural prices would later […]
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