prospect hill was founded by isaac roth who is a revolutionary war veteran from south carolina, who came to the mississippi territory in 1808 with a large group of slaves and free blacks. some of the free blacks fought alongside the revolution the slaves themselves were mostly of mixed race and they came from several plantations in south carolina. so he came here and establish this plantation and arranged for the free blacks who fought with him to buy land in the area, he set up a sleigh base plantation standards was a fairly legality aryan arrangement. the slaves had a certain autonomy, he was obviously close to them and he never bought or sold anyone so the slaves became a tightknit community and when he realized he was going to die and the slaves would end up being slow old or become common slaves, he wrote in his will and the time of his daughter's death that the plantation would be sold and the money would be paid the way for the slaves would be free to liberia. the american colonization society was seemingly conflicting organizations or groups. one was abolitionist who felt they wo