Alan Huffman

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Alan Huffman is an author and journalist from Bolton, Mississippi. He is known as the author of Mississippi in Africa, a nonfiction work detailing the story of two hundred freed slaves who journeyed from Mississippi to Liberia in the hope of establishing a new colony. He is also the author of Ten Point, a photoessay book.

Huffman has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian, Oxford American, Outside, Preservation, BeachBlvd., Lost, American Legacy, and The Washington Post Magazine. During most of the 1980s he headed the environmental desk of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

He moved the Holly Grove Plantation House from near Port Gibson, Mississippi to Bolton, Mississippi in 1990. The home is now a National Historical Landmark.

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  • Mississippi in Africa [1]
  • National Public Radio interview with Huffman [2]
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