So Red the Rose is a novel written in 1934 by Stark Young who was born in Como, Mississippi. Young was the grandson of Hugh McGehee, the brother of Judge Edward McGehee of Bowling Green Plantation near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Though the book is a fictional account of the wealthy slaveholding…
This certifies that Alvin D. Blakes is an approved charter member of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage, having been admitted by the National Board of Directors by virtue of his descent from a forced American hero of African heritage who was…
In my blog series on Black Families of Edgefield Plantation I wrote about Dr. J. C. Patrick , the last owner of the plantation before emancipation. Patrick arrived in Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1830 and married Eliza Chinn Connell in 1833. After the death of Eliza Connell’s husband and…
On June 11, 2022 I presented Black Families of Edgefield Plantation: The Growth of Human Capital, Labor, and Wealth in Woodville, Mississippi, 1776-1865 at the Sons and Daughters of the US Middle Passage (SDUSMP) 5th Annual Juneteenth Conference. The theme of the conference was The Economic Impact of Slavery. It presented an opportunity…
Affy Minor Blake was born around 1815 and died between 1900 and 1910. Her parents, Congo and Sall, and their children, arrived on Edgefield Plantation in Woodville, Mississippi, in 1815. The family was enslaved by John Ellis of Natchez and, after his death in 1808, were given to his wife…
My great-great grandmother Adeline Douglas Turner was born around 1815 and died July 7, 1925, in Woodville, Mississippi. She and her husband, Nelson Turner, were brought from Richmond, Virginia, into Woodville in around 1850 before the birth of their daughter Anna. Their children born in Woodville were Anna, Zacharia, twins…
