African-Americans at Montevideo Plantation, c. 1989 Courtesy of the Special Collections, Tulane University Library)

African-Americans at Montevideo Plantation,
c. 1898.
(Courtesy of the Special Collections, Tulane University Library)

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In 1898, Mary Jones's eldest son, Charles C. Jones, Jr. published "Montevideo-Maybank, or, the Family Life of the Rev. Charles Colcock Jones, D.D."

The book, illustrated with photographs of his family's plantation in Georgia, paid tribute to a way of life destroyed by the Civil War. Blacks living at Montevideo thirty-five years after emancipation descended from slaves once owned by the Jones Family.
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