The Star-Herald

Discover Mississippi: Country’s only cactus plantation found in Edwards

For 40 years, John Thomas grew cacti, bromeliads, and more on his plantation.
The Atlantic

The Thorntons of Mississippi: Peonage on the Plantation

IN THE fields alongside Mississippi Highway 49, where the Meredith Freedom Marchers plodded in June, another Delta cotton crop is nearing harvest, continuing a partnership between man and earth that ...
JSTOR Daily

The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta

Sharon D. Wright Austin has produced a comprehensive study of rural Mississippi, focusing on its traditional Delta “Black Belt.” That long sliver of fertile crescent located along the Mississippi ...
Daily Journal

Queen Elizabeth II once owned interests in a Mississippi cotton plantation

STARKVILLE — In the interest of not “burying the lead,” let me note that although she never set foot in the state of Mississippi or cast her eyes on the alluvial fan of the mythical and mystic ...
insider.si.edu

Ghosts along the Mississippi : an essay in the poetic interpretation of Louisiana's plantation architecture / by Clarence John Laughlin ; one hundred photographs by the author

"The magic of the old houses of Louisiana"--Jacket. Text on verso facing each photograph. Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish -- Ormond Plantation, St. Charles Parish -- Parlange Plantation, Pointe ...