Forgotten Time

Forgotten Time
Author: John C. Willis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813919713

Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.

The Yazoo River

The Yazoo River
Author: Frank E. Smith
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780878053551

An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the United States, the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo

Yazoo

Yazoo
Author: Albert Talmon Morgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1884
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

Yazoo

Yazoo
Author: John E. Ellzey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467111627

With a diverse past, from Native American tribes to the first European explorers and settlers to the present day, Yazoo has always been intriguing. French explorers first named the river that flows through the area the River of the Yazous after the Yazoo Indian tribe, and the county and city were later named for the river. Yazoo County, established in 1823, is the largest county in Mississippi, situated in the west-central part of the state in the fertile valley formed by the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. After its organization, Yazoo County was rapidly settled by pioneers from other parts of Mississippi and from the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Red Book

Red Book
Author: Alice Eichholz
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781593311667

" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Good Old Boy

Good Old Boy
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780916242688

The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Official Information Respecting Yazoo County, Mississippi

Official Information Respecting Yazoo County, Mississippi
Author: Mississippi New Orleans Exposition C
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019606988

This report, compiled by the Mississippi state government in the late 1800s, provides information and statistics about Yazoo County, located in the central part of the state. The book includes descriptions of the area's geography, climate, agriculture, and industry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Black-Gibbs-Mitchell-Giles Ancestors of Yazoo County

Black-Gibbs-Mitchell-Giles Ancestors of Yazoo County
Author: Sammie Giles Jr.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1493177435

This book is about local history of families in an approximately 300-square-mile region of Yazoo County in central Mississippi from 1865 to 1965. It sketches the lives of these African Americans in a violent environment. It transcribes the 1865-66 plantation census of the county. It identifies relatives who fought in the Civil War, and points out the betrayal of Southern United States Colored Troops by Reconstruction presidents. It discusses survival skills, and compares life spans of two generations. Addressing unpleasantness it fills gaps left by oral family history.