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Waverly Plantation
Location: Adams Co., MS
History: Dr. John T. Scott purchased Waverly, a small property of only 75 acres between Mosby's Brighton Plantation and Second Creek. At the time, he owned seven slaves.
The Second Creek Plan (Slave Revolt)
In the summer of 1861, at the dawn of the Civil War, a network of slaves from
neighboring plantations near Second Creek in Adams County, MS conspired to gain
their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy
was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least 40 slaves were
hanged. (Jordan, 1993). Slaves on Dr. Scott's Waverly, Mr. Dunbar's The Forest,
Dr. Jenklin's Elgin, and Dr. Metcalfe's Fair Oaks.
Harry Scott
Harry Scott, one of the slaves of Waverly Plantation and a conspirator in the
Second Creek Plan, shared the only cabin on the Scott place with two women and
four other men. Unusual for a slave, he was acknowledged by surname. His son Alfred,
owned by John S. Mosby, lived at the neighboring Brighton
Plantation. Harry Scott was a bold, enterprising and persistent man. He succeeded
in hiding the runaway slave Dave Bradley in his henhouse and escorting him to
a slave social at The Forest Plantation, where Harry
was a frequent and noteworthy visitor there.
Associated Surnames: Scott
Associated Plantations: Brighton Plantation (Adams Co., MS); The Forest Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
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