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The Forks of the Road slave market dates to the 18th century; slave sales in vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi were primarily at the riverboat landings in the 1780s but the widespread use of the Natchez Trace from Nashville beginning in the 1790s shifted the market inland to the Forks of the Road "located on the Trace at the northeast edge of the upper town."
Natchez also has a very unique history as being a region with a substantial number of free persons of color during the era of slavery. [26] Census records from 1850 and 1860 show that about 85% of the free people of color in the antebellum era were mulattoes; the offspring of white male planter fathers and enslaved or emancipates black females ...
Natchez and Port Gibson were the biggest towns in Mississippi at statehood in 1817; Vicksburg came into its own as a rival to Natchez in the 1830s. [3] (NAID 102279464) NAID 102279464) Eli Whitney's development of the cotton gin in the late 18th century contributed to the development of the area, and the Deep South as a whole, as it made ...
"Just Arrived, 60 Negroes" The Port Gibson Herald, and Correspondent, Port Gibson, Mississippi, March 8, 1850 Map of slavery and slave trade in the United States 1830–1850 by Albert Bushnell Hart (1906) showing overland routes from Nashville and Richmond to Natchez and environs "Bank of Commerce" John D. James, president, David D. James, cashier, Republican Banner, Nashville, Tennessee ...
Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi.He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.
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 ...
According to J. Winston Coleman in Slavery Times in Kentucky, Pierce Griffin was selling in Natchez as early as 1833, and "from the tax returns of that year, which represented one per cent of the gross sales of all 'transient merchants' and 'vendors of slaves,' it appears that Griffin sold over six thousand dollars' worth of slaves". [1]
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