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Domestic News
May 21, 1908
Canton Weekly Register
Canton, Fulton County, Illinois
What is this article about?
Fred Martin, from Fulton County, has bought a cotton plantation in Mississippi with a negro population and plans to move there in about a month, adopting southern ways.
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Bought Cotton Plantation.
Fred Martin has purchased a cotton plantation in Mississippi, from which state he returned a few days ago. He is now busy getting ready to remove to the south in about a month. His new property contains the usual negro population, with a little plantation village of about 20 shanties, and Mr. Martin will be "Massah" Martin down there. Already he has acquired some of the rich southern brogue, says "you all" and "yessah," and is understood to have made a hit with the pickaninnies. His friends in Fulton county unite in wishing him unlimited prosperity in his new home "under southern skies."
Fred Martin has purchased a cotton plantation in Mississippi, from which state he returned a few days ago. He is now busy getting ready to remove to the south in about a month. His new property contains the usual negro population, with a little plantation village of about 20 shanties, and Mr. Martin will be "Massah" Martin down there. Already he has acquired some of the rich southern brogue, says "you all" and "yessah," and is understood to have made a hit with the pickaninnies. His friends in Fulton county unite in wishing him unlimited prosperity in his new home "under southern skies."
What sub-type of article is it?
Migration Or Settlement
Slave Related
What keywords are associated?
Cotton Plantation
Mississippi Migration
Fred Martin
Southern Relocation
Plantation Purchase
What entities or persons were involved?
Fred Martin
Where did it happen?
Mississippi
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Mississippi
Key Persons
Fred Martin
Outcome
fred martin plans to relocate to the plantation in about a month; friends wish him prosperity.
Event Details
Fred Martin purchased a cotton plantation in Mississippi, returned from there a few days ago, and is preparing to move south. The property includes a negro population and a village of about 20 shanties. He has adopted some southern dialect and is popular with the pickaninnies.