History Of Mississippi
The state of Mississippi's history goes back beyond American statehood to ancient Native American times.
Read more about History Of Mississippi: Native Americans, European Colonial Period, Territory and Statehood, Ante-Bellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age: 1877-1900, Progressive Era, 1920s and 1930s, World War II, 1945-2000, Since 2000, Literature
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“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”
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“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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