Editing Washington County, Mississippi (section)

==History==
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Located in the Mississippi Delta, Washington County was first developed for cotton cultivation in the antebellum years. Most plantations were developed to have access to the rivers, which were the major transportation routes. Cotton was based on slave labor.

In an 1860 Census,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3861e.cw0013200/?r=0.325,0.35,0.215,0.107,0 | title=Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860 | website=[[Library of Congress]] | date=January 1861 }}</ref> Washington County had an enslaved population of 92.3%, the second-highest anywhere in the country, only behind [[Issaquena County, Mississippi|Issaquena County]], Mississippi (92.5%). In the period from 1877 to 1950, Washington County had 12 documented [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings of African Americans]].<ref name="eji">[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf ''Lynching in America'', 3rd edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023063004/https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf |date=October 23, 2017 }}, Supplement by County, pg. 6</ref> Most occurred around the turn of the 20th century, as part of white imposition of [[Jim Crow]] conditions and suppression of black voting.