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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."
Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin, drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s. According to archaeological excavations, the area has been continuously inhabited by various cultures of indigenous peoples since the 8th century A.D. [1] The original site of Natchez was developed as a major village with ceremonial platform mounds, built by people of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture ...
"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 ...
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
Bill of sale for Peter sold by H. G. Richardson on behalf of Rowan & Harris for $750 to Samuel Davis, May 1835 (Mississippi State University Lantern Project) Rowan & Harris, sometimes Harris Rowan & Co., was a slave trading company of the United States, known for selling at the Forks of the Road slave market in Natchez, Mississippi in the 1830s ...
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 ...
Griffin & Pullum was part of the chain of slave traders who kidnapped and trafficked Henrietta Wood to Mississippi. [4] Later in the 1850s, Griffin & Pullum became Griffin, Pullum & Co., with Asa Blackwell and F. G. Murphy representing the Co. [ 5 ] Also in 1860 Griffin & Pullum advertised that they were selling out of the "old Elam House" at ...
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]