History. Knowing it is a vital part of preparedness to reach sustainability. Issaquena County, Mississippi.

 BEFORE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING, YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN

---Kevin Sugar-Daddy Woodley

There are over 3,500 Counties in the U.S. States and its’ Territories.

In the Southern States of the U.S. mass migrations took place from the 1870’s to 2000’s due to inequity, just as mass migrations are taking place in 2024 due to the impacts of climate change.

“…third-poorest county in the United States…”       Issaquena County, Mississippi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issaquena_County,_Mississippi “..In 1860,[10] 92.5% of Issaquena County's total population were enslaved people, the highest concentration anywhere in the United States.[11] The U.S. Census for that year showed that 7,244 slaves were held in Issaquena County, and of 115 slave owners, 39 held 77 or more slaves.[12] Stephen Duncan of Issaquena County held 858 slaves, second only to Joshua John Ward of South Carolina.[13] This large "value of slave property" made Issaquena County the second richest county in the United States, with "mean total wealth per freeman" at $26,800 in 1860 (equivalent to $741,000 in 2023).[14] By 1880—just 15 years after the abolition of slavery—the county had developed "a strong year-round market for wage labor", and Issaquena was the only county in Mississippi to report "no sharecropping or sharerenting whatsoever".[14] “  Notable people Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader and mayor of Mayersville from 1976 to 2001; first female African-American mayor in Mississippi Charles C. Diggs, Sr., first African-American Democrat elected to the Michigan Senate; born in Tallula[32] William Stamps Farish II, president of Standard Oil; born in Mayersville[33] Muddy Waters, blues musician (1913–1983); born in "Jug's Corner"[34] Eliza Winston, notable enslaved person Read more at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issaquena_County,_Mississippi