The Giant of Mississippi — The 7 Foot 8 Enslaved Man Who Made Masters Flee in Fear

Описание: In eighteen fifty-six, Mississippi plantation owners thought they'd found the perfect entertainment: forcing an enslaved man named Elias—seven feet eight inches tall and impossibly strong—to fight other men for their gambling pleasure. They called him "the Bull" and paraded him between plantations like a prize animal. But the same strength that made Elias valuable also made him dangerous. And when a brutal fight left a young man dead while the crowd laughed, Elias began planning something unprecedented.
This is the story of how one man turned spectacle into insurrection, using fight nights as cover to coordinate with enslaved people across multiple plantations. On November twenty-seventh, eighteen fifty-eight, during what was supposed to be Elias's crowning performance—wrestling a bear for entertainment—he made a choice that would echo through Mississippi history for generations. What happened in those minutes of chaos left seven plantation owners dead, forty people fleeing into the canebrakes, and an entire county paralyzed by fear.
We trace this story through courthouse records, oral histories, and the fragmentary evidence that survived fires and deliberate erasure. We examine not just what Elias did, but the network that made it possible, the bystanders who enabled the system, and the question of whether a rebellion that "failed" by conventional measures can still be considered a success.
Some stories get buried because they're too dangerous to remember. This is one of them.

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