James, when Mr. Fahey found him, had lost interest in music but saw an opportunity to get off the Mississippi plantation where he was a tenant farmer.

After the death of his father, he retreated to his grandfather's Mississippi plantation and assumed the life of a planter.

Israel often said-with a certain air of pride-that he'd been whipped more than any other slave on the Mississippi plantation from which he'd run away when he was twenty.

He decided to retire to the confort of his Mississippi plantation.

My first house was a mansion in the middle of an ancient Mississippi plantation, restored to its antebellum splendor.

So, he returns to the Mississippi plantation that his brother Gilbert gave him to manage, and he prospers.

It was Mr. Henerson who came up with the idea of setting the play on a Mississippi plantation.

It was her favorite place to live; as an example of their many differences, her husband preferred life on their Mississippi plantation.

In doing so, he would leave behind his Mississippi plantation and adopt the Navy's itinerant life.

After three months of marriage, Sarah died of malaria at the age of 21 on September 15, 1835, on Davis's Mississippi plantation.