Tomorrow is the big day. My research students ( Jonathan Zuniga-Hernandez, Jessica Gutierrez, Billy Hall) and I will visit the Mississippi Department of Archives and History March 17, 2016. I am so excited about what we could find. I hope we can find some maps but I am not confident we will find any. Ms. Forrest Galey is our contact person and will be our guide tomorrow.
I am also interested in exploring is the economics of the Boddie Plantation. When it was a working plantation there had to be some records of transactions. Maybe we can find evidence of the actual slaves. That would be a significant find.