Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Essay

Mississippi is the 20th state in the United States of America. It’s known for their culture its recent and past events and last but not least slavery. Mississippi was created by an act of Congress, with Winthrop Sargent as the first territorial governor. The state had got its name from the Mississippi River, which forms the western border. Three major Native American groups lived there before Europeans began to explore the area. Chickasaw lived in the North and East part, Choctaw lived in the central parts and the Natchez lived in the Southwestern parts of Mississippi. In the first half of the 19th Mississippi was the top cotton producer in the United States of America. Owners of large population depended on the work of black slaves.
Mississippi separated itself from the Union and suffered a lot during the American Civil War. Although the ending of slavery, racial discrimination remain to exist in Mississippi, and the state was the battleground for the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century. But, in the early …show more content…
Importing of slaves was barred after 1808, but the acceleration in cotton following the invention of the cotton gin in 1783 boosted the demand, and slave smuggling wasn’t halted until 1860. The first shipload of twenty slaves arrived in America on a Dutch ship from Africa in 1619. When slavery excelled during the Civil War, majority of the blacks were living on the plantations with 20 or more fellow slaves. The owners hired whites to look over the slaves while they were working either in the fields or in the house. Most of the slaves tried running away and some rarely escaped. The ones that didn’t escaped were captured and brought back to the plantation where they would be beat for trying to escape and some were just returned back to work. And, the ones that escaped fled to the northern states and eventually was able to see what freedom had looked