Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — Jeff Davis' Slave a “Mayor." [ARTICLE]

Jeff Davis' Slave a “Mayor."

Isaiah T. Montgomery,who was in his youth a slave of Jefferson Davis and his elder brother, Joseph Davis, founded a colony of negroes in the Yazoo River Valley, |n Mississippi after the war, and be is now “mayor” of the village of Mount Bayou, the center of the colony. The negroes own 12,000 acres there.