ABSTRACT
Utica is a small town which sits at the foot of the Delta, 30 minutes from the Mississippi. Mississippi, an Ojibwe word that means ‘Great River’. This river ferried king cotton and unnamed precious human cargo from weigh ins and auction blocks into markets and plantation bondage up and down this country – providing a literal stream of income that would build white generational wealth across the nation and fuel the southern block of confederate political power up through reconstruction and deep into the era of Jim Crow.
