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  2. Natchez slave market - Wikipedia

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    The Natchez slave market was a slave market in Natchez, Mississippi in the United States. Slaves were originally sold throughout the area, including along the Natchez Trace that connected the settlement with Nashville , along the Mississippi River at Natchez-Under-the-Hill , and throughout town.

  3. History of Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Ante-Bellum Natchez (1968), the standard scholarly study; Libby, David J. Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720–1835, U. Press of Mississippi, 2004. 163 pp. focus on Natchez; Nguyen, Julia Huston. "Useful and Ornamental: Female Education in Antebellum Natchez," Journal of Mississippi History 2005 67(4): 291–309

  4. William Johnson (barber) - Wikipedia

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    William Johnson House Museum at Natchez National Historical Park in Natchez, Mississippi. William T. Johnson (c. 1809 – June 17, 1851) was a free African American barber of biracial parentage, who lived in Natchez, Mississippi. He was born into slavery but his owner, also named William Johnson and thought to be his father, emancipated him in ...

  5. History of slavery in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Natchez to New Orleans: Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River by A. Persac (1858) showing cotton plantations of Mississippi along the Mississippi River, Natchez to state line 1860 US census, Mississippi, number of slaves per enslaver Former slave quarters at Jefferson Davis' plantation Brierfield in Mississippi, drawn by A.R. Waud, etching published 1866 in Harper's Weekly

  6. Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census. [3] Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.

  7. Devil's Punchbowl (Natchez, Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    The Devil's Punchbowl was a concentration camp created in Natchez, Mississippi during the American Civil War to the freed slaves.

  8. Natchez District - Wikipedia

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    They built elegant mansions in and around the town of Natchez, and they hired overseers to manage their plantations in the countryside. Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) of Mississippi was reported to have owned more than 1,000 slaves, making him the richest cotton planter in the world at the time.

  9. Natchez National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    Melrose was the estate of John T. McMurran, a lawyer, state senator, and planter who lived in Natchez from 1830 until the Civil War. Forks of the Road marks what was the second-busiest slave trading market in the Deep South between 1832 and 1863. [2] This unit of the park opened in an official ceremony on June 18, 2021. [3]