The Yazoo land fraud was a scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value.
The Yazoo land fraud was a scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value.
