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In 1834 Captain Isaac Ross, whose plantation was in Lorman, Mississippi, freed his slaves and arranged for them to be sent to Africa, where they founded the country of Liberia. |
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In 1871 Liberty, Mississippi became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument. |
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In 1902 while on a hunting expedition in Sharkey County, Mississippi, President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear. This act resulted in the creation of the world-famous teddy bear. |
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