Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (Q491177)
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HC-PER-34949
- HC-PER-34949
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Isaiah Thornton Montgomery
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Plantation Owner
Slave
City and Town Founder / Benefactor
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery
Enslaved. The founder of the all-black town of Mound Bayou in Mississippi. Isaiah Montgomery supported temporary disenfranchisement for African Americans while serving as the only African American delegate elected to the Mississippi constitutional convention in 1890.