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Isaac Ross (planter)
''For the rugby player from New Zealand, see Isaac Ross.''
Isaac Ross (1760-1836) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and planter from South Carolina who developed Prospect Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, for cotton cultivation. He owned thousands of acres and nearly 160 slaves by 1820.
In 1830 Ross was among the major donors and founders of Oakland College, a Presbyterian-affiliated school for young men near Lorman, Mississippi, which operated from 1830 to 1870. After sale to the state that year, it was renamed by the state legislature as Alcorn College and designated as a land-grant university, the first land grant institution for blacks in the United States.
Influenced by war ideals and the American Colonization Society, Ross was among the founders of the Mississippi Colonization Society. Its goal was to repatriate (or transport) freed slaves to Africa in order to get them out of the South, where planters believed they threatened slave societies. In 1835 Ross wrote a will to free his hundreds of African-American slaves (who were overwhelmingly US native-born) and sell his plantation, using the revenue to transport the freed slaves to Liberia, where a colony had been set up in coastal West Africa. The Mississippi Colonization Society purchased land, establishing a colony known as Mississippi-in-Africa. In 1847 it became part of the Commonwealth of Liberia.
==Biography==
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