Overview
Location
Adams Co., MS
Date Constructed/ Founded
not determined
Associated Surnames
Scott
Historical notes
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, a 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. Jenkin's Elgin Plantation, 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 hen house and escorting him to a slave social at The Forest, where Harry was a frequent and noteworthy visitor there.
Associated Slave Workplaces
Brighton Plantation (Adams Co., MS), The Forest (Adams Co., MS), Elgin Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
Associated Free Persons
- Dr. John T. Scott - owner
- Thomas A. Ogden - boarder at Waverly; Episcopal clergyman from New Jersey
Associated Enslaved Persons
- Frederick - participant in the Second Creek Plan
- Harry Scott - conspirator in the Second Creek Plan; son Alfred, owned by John S. Mosby, lived at Brighton Plantation
- Mose - conspirator in the Second Creek Plan
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Miscellaneous Information
References
- Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into ACivil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press
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