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| history of natchez mississippi: Straight Outta Natchez Jeremy Houston, 2018-11-03 Straight Outta Natchez Volume 3 is a part of a three volume series written by Jeremy Houston of Natchez, Mississippi. Natchez is the oldest continuous settlement on the Mississippi River and birthplace of the state. The first enslaved people of African descent came to Natchez in 1719. The cultural contributions of African Americans are foundation to the history of Natchez, Mississippi. The influence and prestige of Natchez people has literally spread around and across the world. Straight Outta Natchez Vol. 3 profiles the lives and times 16 prominent African Americans from Natchez. The individuals highlighted in this manuscript lived during Slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and Modern Times (Post-Civil Rights Movement). Individuals like John Roy Lynch, Papa George Lightfoot, Wharlest Jackson Sr, Nook Logan, Marie Selika Williams, & Darryl Grennell have made an impact in politics, entertainment, sports, and civil rights advancement in America. |
| history of natchez mississippi: How Well Do You Know the Black History of Natchez Mississippi ? Jeremy Houston, 2017-03-01 |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Deepest South of All Richard Grant, 2021-08-31 Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote-- |
| history of natchez mississippi: Hidden History of Natchez Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett, 2021-07 Since prehistory, the bluffs of Natchez have called to the bold, the cruel and the quietly determined. The diverse opportunists who heeded that call have left behind more than three hundred years of colorful and tragic stories. The Natchez Indians, who inhabited the bluffs at the time of European contact, made a calculated but ultimately catastrophic decision to massacre the French who had settled nearby. William Johnson, a Black man who occupied a tenuous position between two worlds, found wealth and status in antebellum Natchez. In the wake of Union occupation, thousands of the formerly enslaved became the city's protective garrison. Join authors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman and rediscover the people who toiled and bled to make Natchez one of the most unique and interesting cities in America. |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Natchez Indians James F. Barnett Jr., 2007-11-01 The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the European struggle for control of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The book begins with the brief confrontation between the Hernando de Soto expedition and the powerful Quigualtam chiefdom, presumed ancestors of the Natchez. In the late seventeenth century, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's expedition met the Natchez and initiated sustained European encroachment, exposing the tribe to sickness and the dangers of the Indian slave trade. The Natchez Indians portrays the way that the Natchez coped with a rapidly changing world, became entangled with the political ambitions of two European superpowers, France and England, and eventually disappeared as a people. The author examines the shifting relationships among the tribe's settlement districts and the settlement districts' relationships with neighboring tribes and with the Europeans. The establishment of a French fort and burgeoning agricultural colony in their midst signaled the beginning of the end for the Natchez people. Barnett has written the most complete and detailed history of the Natchez to date. |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Natchez District and the American Revolution Robert V. Haynes, 1976 The most comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War in the lower Mississippi Valley |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Black Experience in Natchez, 1720-1880 Ronald L. F. Davis, 1993 |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez Country George Edward Milne, 2015 This manuscript focuses on the interactions between Native Americans and European colonists during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly the relationships that developed between the French and the Natchez, Chickasaw, and Choctaw peoples. Milne's history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and its peoples provides the most comprehensive and detailed account of the Natchez in particular, from La Salle's first encounter with what would become Louisiana to the ultimate disappearance of the Natchez by the end of the 1730s. In crafting this narrative, George Milne also analyzes the ways in which French attitudes about race and slavery influenced native North American Indians in the vicinity of French colonial settlements on the Gulf coast, and how in turn Native Americans adopted and/or resisted colonial ideology-- |
| history of natchez mississippi: Antebellum Natchez D. Clayton James, 1993-05-01 Antebellum Natchez is most often associated with the grand and romantic aspects of the Old South and its landed gentry. Yet there was, as this book so amply illustrates, another Natchez—the Natchez of ordinary citizens, small businessmen, and free Negroes, and the Natchez under-the-Hill of brawling boatmen, professional gamblers, and bold-faced strumpets. Antebellum Natchez not only takes a critical look at the town’s aristocracy but also examines the depth of its commercial activities and the life of its middle- and lower-class elements. Author D. Clayton James brings the political, economic, and social aspects of antebellum Natchez into perspective and debunks a number of myths and illusions, including the notion that the town was a stronghold of Federalism and Whiggery. Starting with the Natchez Indians and their “Sun God” culture, James traces the development of the town from the native village through the plotting and intrigue of the changing regimes of the French, Spanish, British, and Americans. James makes a perceptive analysis of the aristocrats’ role in restricting the growth of the town, which in 1800 appeared likely to become the largest city in the transmontane region. “The attitudes and behavior of the aristocrats of Natchez during the final three decades of the antebellum period were characterized by escapism and exclusiveness,” says James. “With the aristocrats sullenly withdrawing into their world...Natchez lost forever the opportunity to become a major metropolis, and Mississippi was led to ruin.” Quoting generously from diaries, journals, and other records, the author gives the reader a valuable insight into what life in a Southern town was like before the Civil War. Antebellum Natchez is an important account of the role of Natchez and its colorful figures—John Quitman, Robert Walker, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, William C. C. Claiborne, and a host of others—in the colonial affairs of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the growth of the Old Southwest. |
| history of natchez mississippi: History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians Horatio Bardwell Cushman, 1899 History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians by Horatio Bardwell Cushman, first published in 1899, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Classic Natchez Randolph Delehanty, Van Jones Martin, Ronald W. Miller, Mary Warren Miller, 1996 Classic Natchez is the fourth in a series of books about significant Southern cities. By bringing together thought-provoking essays, beautiful contemporary color photographs, and informative maps and illustrations, the editors reveal the essence of each city through its architecture. In this volume, Randolph Delehanty presents the captivating and ironic history of Natchez, identifying the architectural evidence of each era and relating it to the social and economic pulses that created it. An entertaining time line illustrated with archival photographs, maps, panoramas, and floor plans takes the reader from the earliest native habitations, through the construction boom of the cotton era, to the modern-day efforts to preserve this precious legacy. As the introduction and time line give the architecture historical perspective, a portfolio of forty-three landmark Natchez homes gives it life, with stories of Natchez's celebrated nineteenth-century society woven into the lives and lifestyles of modern Natchezians. The portfolio offers a colorful journey through time - the sweet serenity of Spanish-era Hope Farm, to the nearly unbelievable fantasy of Haller Nutt's suburban Longwood, and ending with a bluff-top modern homage to a Mississippi planter's cottage. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Goat Castle Karen L. Cox, 2017-08-09 In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the Wild Man and the Goat Woman—enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate Goat Castle. Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded justice, and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder by opening their derelict home to tourists. Strange, fascinating, and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez: Symbol of the Old South Nola Nance Oliver, 2020-09-28 Natchez derives its name from the sun-worshiping Indian tribe, the Natchez, who were the original owners of the area on which the city is located. It is situated in Adams county, in the southwestern part of the state of Mississippi, on bluffs 200 feet high overlooking the Mississippi River, and is midway between Memphis and New Orleans. It is accessible by railway, steamboat, motor highway and airway. It is particularly proud of the Natchez Trace Parkway, a modern concrete road over an old Indian trace or trail from Nashville to Natchez. This highway is a link in one of the most important commercial and historic highways in the United States reaching from Washington, D. C., to Mexico. Today Natchez is a recognized center of interest because in the city and its vicinity there are a greater number of original ante-bellum mansions than in any other community in America—some 75 or more. Natchez is the second oldest town in the United States, being next in age to St. Augustine, Florida. It has lived under five different flags, each of which contributed romantic flavor to the section. From 1714 to 1763 it was under the flag of France; from 1764 to 1780 under the flag of England; and from 1780 to 1798 under the flag of Spain. In 1798 the first United States flag in the Lower Mississippi Valley was raised in Natchez. Years after the raising of the “stars and stripes”, another flag which some call “the conquered banner”, the beloved flag of the Confederate States of America, floated over Natchez, 1861-’65. Natchez “Under the Hill” applies to that part of the town along the water front and under the bluffs. It flourished during the heyday of steamboating on the Mississippi. The inroads of the river have washed away the streets, and only a few buildings remain. One very interesting home, “Magnolia Vale”, has been preserved and is presented in this book. The majority of these old homes contain original pieces of furniture, china, coin silver service, draperies, carpets, wall decorations of exquisite workmanship, huge mirrors in massive goldleaf frames, paintings bearing authentic signatures of great masters, and hand-carved marble mantels. Laces, silks, and rich costumes are displayed today by third, fourth and fifth generations. It seems hardly possible that the world could move on and leave one small community undisturbed in its ancient grandeur. The hand of destiny seems indeed to uphold and enshrine this hallowed region. The estates have descended from generation to generation, many of them today being owned and occupied by descendants of the original owners. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez on the Mississippi Harnett Thomas Kane, 2016-10-27 Originally published in 1947, this book by New Orleans native Harnett Kane provides over 300 pages of detailed history of the Natchez area in Mississippi. It includes vivid descriptions of over 20 antebellum mansions, the personal stories of the families that built them, and the individuals who called them home. History buffs will be interested in reading about the many famous figures named in this book, such as Andrew Jackson and Aaron Burr, who were among those who helped shape the state’s history, and in some cases, the history of the American nation. Also included in Kane’s retelling of interesting and entertaining stories about Natchez are two that garnered national interest in years past: the famous steamboat race between The Natchez and The Robert E. Lee, and the infamous story of Natchez’s Goat Castle. A fascinating read. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez Hugh Howard, Roger Straus, 2003 Two hundred stunning photographs complement a beautiful celebration of architecture, lifestyle, history, and interior design in a study of some of the great antebellum houses that mark the architectural heritage of Natchez, Mississippi. 12,000 first printing. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Parchman Ordeal, The: 1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice G. Mark LaFrancis with Robert Morgan and Darrell White , 2018 In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced the would-be marchers onto buses and charged them with parading without a permit, a local ordinance later ruled unconstitutional. For approximately 150 of these young men and women, this was only the beginning. They were taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where prison authorities subjected them to days of abuse, humiliation and punishment under horrific conditions. Most were African Americans in their teens and early twenties. Authors G. Mark LaFrancis, Robert Morgan and Darrell White reveal the injustice of this overlooked dramatic episode in civil rights history. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Steamboat Natchez, New Orleans Kerri McCaffety, 2016-11-01 Award-winning writer and photographer Kerri McCaffety takes on one of the greatest stories of all time--the story of the Mississippi River and the Golden Age of steamboats, the adventure and romance that inspired Mark Twain and captivated imaginations around the world. The larger history of Mississippi river transport is explored within the context of a living legacy and an elegant icon of present-day New Orleans, Steamboat Natchez, the only true steam-powered boat on the Mississippi today.The first steamboat plied the waters of the Mississippi River in 1811. When the steamer, called the New Orleans, arrived in her namesake city, Captain Roosevelt invited the public to come aboard for an excursion down the river and back, a route very similar to the daily cruises the Natchez offers today.In the nineteenth century, steam power changed the world, opening up travel and trade undreamt of before. The South got rich on the exports of cotton and sugar, all carried by the big, beautiful boats. When railroads began to offer more efficient cargo transport around the turn of the twentieth century, the second golden age of the steamboat focused on luxury and entertainment. Steamboats took New Orleans jazz from Storyville to the rest of the world.The first of ten steamboats named Natchez for the Mississippi port city or the Indian tribe, was a sidewheeler built in New York in 1823. She carried passengers and cargo from New Orleans to Natchez, Mississippi. Since then, the Natchez name has meant ultimate beauty and speed on the big river. The most famous and colorful steamboat commander of the nineteenth century, Captain P. T. Leathers, built eight boats named Natchez. His sixth was the racer in the epic 1870 competition with the Robert E. Lee.The new Natchez, built in 1975, carries on a grand tradition. Her original master and captain for 20 years, Clarke C. Doc Hawley, is a modern-day river legend and the world authority on steamboat history. Captain Hawley collaborated on writing Steamboat Natchez, New Orleans & The History of Mississippi River Steamboats and acted as expert consultant. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez Before 1830 Noel Polk, 2009-12 This informative study representing a variety of scholarly perspectives reveals the cultural, historical, economic, political, and even geographical evolution of Old Natchez, which until now has been given little attention. In some ways, Natchez is among the best-known of American towns. Because of its strategic location high atop the Mississippi River bluffs, it became, in the early years of this country's development, the cultural and economic matrix for the great American Southwest. However, despite its rich history and strong hold on the American imagination, there are many areas of Natchez history that remain relatively unexplored. In these papers from the second L.O. Crosby, Jr., Memorial Lectures, scholars from a variety of academic disciplines suggest numerous ways in which forces converged on the people of the Natchez area to shape and mold their daily lives. Ian Brown portrays Indian lifeways in the Natchez region in historic times by drawing on archaeological expeditions and on the writings and sketches of travelers such as Le Page du Pratz and Alexandre De Batz. Letha Wood Audhuy contributes to an understanding of Natchez's significance in Western culture by exploring the writings of Chateaubriand. Using the Spanish archives, Alfred E. Lemmon reconstructs Natchez under Spanish Dons. Don E. Carleton surveys the enormous dimensions of the Natchez Trace Collection, a Collection of original manuscripts, financial and legal records, sheet music, photographs and other archival documents which span the years between the late 1770s and the early 1900s. Analyzing the Wilton map of 1774, Milton B. Newton, Jr., demonstrates precisely how it documents the arrival of tangible British order in the Old Natchez District. Morton Rothstein describes the beginnings of the Natchez economy. Estill Curtis Pennington examines important surviving artifacts of the Natchezians' material culture to show how they brought the culture and refinement of the East to frontier society. Jeanne Middleton Forsythe tells of the values and beliefs of Old Natchez as they are reflected in the educational enterprises of the pre-1830s. Finally, Samuel Wilson, Jr., establishes the architectural distinctiveness of some of the older Natchez buildings in the context of the history of the time and place. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Heritage and Hoop Skirts Paul Hardin Kapp, 2022-10-26 Winner of the 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize Winner of the 2023 UMW Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the “Old South,” but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of history first concocted during the Great Depression. In Heritage and Hoop Skirts: How Natchez Created the Old South, author Paul Hardin Kapp reveals how the women of the Natchez Garden Club saved their city, created one of the first cultural tourism economies in the United States, changed the Mississippi landscape through historic preservation, and fashioned elements of the Lost Cause into an industry. Beginning with the first Natchez Spring Pilgrimage of Antebellum Homes in 1932, such women as Katherine Grafton Miller, Roane Fleming Byrnes, and Edith Wyatt Moore challenged the notion that smokestack industries were key to Natchez’s prosperity. These women developed a narrative of graceful living and aristocratic gentlepeople centered on grand but decaying mansions. In crafting this pageantry, they created a tourism magnet based on the antebellum architecture of Natchez. Through their determination and political guile, they enlisted New Deal programs, such as the WPA Writers’ Project and the Historic American Buildings Survey, to promote their version of the city. Their work did save numerous historic buildings and employed both white and African American workers during the Depression. Still, the transformation of Natchez into a tourist draw came at a racial cost and further marginalized African American Natchezians. By attending to the history of preservation in Natchez, Kapp draws on a rich archive of images, architectural documents, and popular culture to explore how meaning is assigned to place and how meaning evolves over time. In showing how and why the Natchez buildings of the “Old South” were first preserved, commercialized, and transformed into a brand, this volume makes a much-needed contribution to ongoing debates over the meaning attached to cultural patrimony. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Dispatches from Pluto Richard Grant, 2015-10-13 New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans Laura Kilcer VanHuss, 2021-05-05 Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac’s map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes. Essays by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the effort to present a façade of serenity and wealth. William Horne and Charles D. Chamberlain III delve into the political activity of formerly enslaved people and slaveholders respectively, while Christopher Willoughby explores the ways the plantation health system was defined by the agro-industrial environment. Jochen Wierich examines artistic depictions of plantations from the antebellum years through the twentieth century, and Christopher Morris uses the famed Uncle Sam Plantation to explain how plantations have been memorialized, remembered, and preserved. With keen insight into the human cost of the idealized version of the agrarian South depicted in Persac’s map, Charting the Plantation Landscape encourages us to see with new eyes and form new definitions of what constitutes the plantation landscape. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Wildflowers of the Natchez Trace , This handbook for travelers and nature lovers selects and describes 100 of the most common wildflowers along the most scenic trail of the Deep South. 100 full-color plates. 23 line drawings. Map. |
| history of natchez mississippi: This Is My South Caroline Eubanks, 2018-10-01 You may think you know the South for its food, its people, its past, and its stories, but if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that the region tells far more than one tale. It is ever-evolving, open to interpretation, steeped in history and tradition, yet defined differently based on who you ask. This Is My South inspires the reader to explore the Southern States––Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia––like never before. No other guide pulls together these states into one book in quite this way with a fresh perspective on can’t-miss landmarks, off the beaten path gems, tours for every interest, unique places to sleep, and classic restaurants. So come see for yourself and create your own experiences along the way! |
| history of natchez mississippi: Haunted Natchez Alan Brown, 2010-08-27 A haunting historical tour of this little Mississippi town—includes photos! Take a tour though a charming small town full of all the appeal Dixie has to offer—a tour that reveals there is more to Natchez than its pristine exterior suggests . . . Just beneath the unassuming placid gentility of classic Southern mansions and estates, ghosts and spirits pervade Natchez. From the old Adams County Jail to the Natchez City Cemetery, spirits from generations past remain in Natchez. Join Alan Brown, experienced Mississippi author and expert on all things haunted, as he surveys the historic haunts of Natchez, a town as rich in history as it is in ghostly activity. |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Preparation and Use of Historic Structure Reports Deborah Slaton, 2005 Explains the purpose of historic structure reports, describes their value to the preservation of significant historic properties, outlines how reports are commissioned and prepared, and recommends an organizational format for such reports. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Black Experience in Natchez Ronald L. F. Davis, Black Experience in Natchez |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez Burning Greg Iles, 2014-04-29 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes The Bone Tree and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage. Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. Once a crusading prosecutor, Penn is determined to save his father, but Tom, stubbornly invoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses even to speak in his own defense. Penn's quest for the truth sends him deep into his father's past, where a sexually charged secret lies. More chilling, this long-buried sin is only one thread in a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the most powerful men in the state. Aided by a dedicated reporter privy to Natchez's oldest secrets and by his fiancée, Caitlin Masters, Penn uncovers a trail of corruption and brutality that places his family squarely in the Double Eagles' crosshairs. With every step costing blood and faith, Penn is forced to confront the most wrenching dilemma of his life: Does a man of honor choose his father or the truth? |
| history of natchez mississippi: Straight Outta Natchez Volume II Jeremy Houston, 2018-11-02 Straight Outta Natchez Volume 2 is a part of a three volume series written by Jeremy Houston of Natchez, Mississippi. Natchez is the oldest continuous settlement on the Mississippi River and birthplace of the state. The first enslaved people of African descent came to Natchez in 1719. The cultural contributions of African Americans are foundational to the history of Natchez, Mississippi. The influence and prestige of Natchez people has literally spread around and across the world. Straight Outta Natchez Vol. 2 profiles the lives and times six prominent African Americans from Natchez. The individuals highlighted in this manuscript lived during Slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and Modern Times (Post-Civil Rights Movement). Individuals like Sadie V Thompson, Papa George Lightfoot, and George Metcalfe, have made an impact in education, entertainment, and civil rights advancement in America. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Turning Angel Greg Iles, 2005-12-27 #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mississippi Blood and The Bone Tree keeps the secrets of the South alive in this “powerful…heartfelt…entirely gripping” (The Washington Post) novel of infatuation, murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. When the nude body of a beautiful young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked—but no one more than Penn Cage, who discovers that his best friend, Drew Elliott, was entangled in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of her murder. On the surface, Kate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim imaginable. A star student and athlete, she’d been accepted to Harvard and carried the hope and pride of the town on her shoulders. But like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret life—one about which her adult lover knew little. Penn will do all he can to exonerate Drew, but in a town where the gaze of a landmark cemetery statue—the Turning Angel—never looks away, Penn finds himself caught on the jagged edge of blackmail, betrayal, and deadly violence. By the time Penn arrives at the shattering truth, this quiet Southern town will never be the same and “Turning Angel will have you wondering where Greg Iles has been all your life” (USA TODAY). |
| history of natchez mississippi: Barber of Natchez Edwin Adams Davis, William Ransom Hogan, 1973-06-01 In The Barber of Natchez, Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan tell the remarkable story of William Johnson, a slave who rose to freedom, business success, and high community standing in the heart of the South—all before 1850. Emancipated as a young boy in 1820, Johnson became a barber’s apprentice and later opened several profitable barber shops of his own. As his wealth grew, he expanded into real estate and acquired large tracts of nearby farm and timber land. The authors explore in detail Johnson’s family, work, and social life, including his friendships with people of both races. They also examine his wanton murder and the resulting trial of the man accused of shooting him. More than the story of one individual, the narrative also offers compelling insight into the southern code of honor, the apprentice system, and the ownership of slaves by free blacks. Based on Johnson’s two-thousand-page diary, letters, and business records, this extraordinary biography reveals the complicated life of a freedman in Mississippi and a new perspective on antebellum Natchez. |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Great Houses of Natchez Mary Warren Miller, Ronald W. Miller, 1986 Examines the architecture, history, and interior style of fifty-nine antebellum houses |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Black Experience in Natchez, 1720-1880 Ronald L. F. Davis, 1994 |
| history of natchez mississippi: Remembering Dixie Susan T. Falck, 2019-08-23 Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place “Where the Old South Still Lives.” Tourists flocked to view the town’s decaying antebellum mansions, hoopskirted hostesses, and a pageant saturated in sentimental Lost Cause imagery. In Remembering Dixie: The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865–1941, Susan T. Falck analyzes how the highly biased, white historical memories of what had been a wealthy southern hub originated from the experiences and hardships of the Civil War. These collective narratives eventually culminated in a heritage tourism enterprise still in business today. Additionally, the book includes new research on the African American community’s robust efforts to build historical tradition, most notably, the ways in which African Americans in Natchez worked to create a distinctive postemancipation identity that challenged the dominant white structure. Using a wide range of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources—many of which have never been fully mined before—Falck reveals the ways in which black and white Natchezians of all classes, male and female, embraced, reinterpreted, and contested Lost Cause ideology. These memory-making struggles resulted in emotional, internecine conflicts that shaped the cultural character of the community and impacted the national understanding of the Old South and the Confederacy as popular culture. Natchez remains relevant today as a microcosm for our nation’s modern-day struggles with Lost Cause ideology, Confederate monuments, racism, and white supremacy. Falck reveals how this remarkable story played out in one important southern community over several generations in vivid detail and richly illustrated analysis. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Tumult And Silence At Second Creek Winthrop D. Jordan, 1996-01-01 In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the testimony of some of the accused slaves as they were interrogated by a committee of planters determined to ferret out what was going on. This discovery led him on a twenty-year search for additional information about the aborted rebellion. Because no official report or even newspaper account of the plot existed, the search for evidence became a feat of historical detection. Jordan gathered information from every possible source - the private letters and diaries of members of the families involved in suppressing the conspiracy and of people who recorded the rumors that swept the Natchez area in the unsettled months following the beginning of the war; letters from Confederate soldiers concerned about the events back home; the journal of a Union officer who heard of the plot; records of the postwar Southern Claims Commission; census documents; plantation papers; even gravestones. What has emerged from this odyssey of research is a brilliantly written re-creation of one of the last slave conspiracies in the United States. It is also a revealing portrait of the Natchez region at the very beginning of the CivilWar, when Adams County was one of the wealthiest communities in the nation and a few powerful families interconnected by marriage and business controlled not only a large black population but the poorer whites as well. In piecing together the fragments of extant information about the conspiracy, Jordan has produced a vivid picture of the plantation slave community in southwestern Mississippi in 1861 - its composition and distribution; the degree of mobility permitted slaves; the ways information was passed around slave quarters and from plantation to plantation; the possibilities for communication with town slaves, free blacks, and white abolitionists. Jordan also explores the treatment of blacks by their owners, the kinds of resentments the slaves harbored, the sacrifices they were willing to make to protect or avenge abused family members, and the various ways in which they viewed freedom. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek is a major work by one of the most distinguished scholars of slavery and race relations. Winthrop D. Jordan's study of the slave society of the Natchez area at the onset of the Civil War is a landmark contribution to the field. More than that, his exhaustive and resourceful search for documentation and his careful analysis of sources make the study an extended and innovative essay on the nature of historical evidence and inference. |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Devil's Punchbowl Greg Iles, 2011-12-06 Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl. |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez Indian Archaeology Ian W. Brown, 1985 |
| history of natchez mississippi: Mississippi in Africa Alan Huffman, 2011-01-03 When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over. |
| history of natchez mississippi: The Proud Way Shirley Seifert, 1948 |
| history of natchez mississippi: Natchez Before 1830 Noel Polk, 1989 The papers gathered here are those delivered in Natchez, Mississippi, January 15-17, 1987, at the second of the L.O. Crosby, Jr., Memorial Lectures in Mississippi Culture ...--Introd., p. ix. |
| history of natchez mississippi: My Diary North and South Sir William Howard Russell, 1863 Discusses problems of America. |
History Of Natchez Mississippi - netsec.csuci.edu
History Of Natchez Mississippi history of natchez mississippi: Straight Outta Natchez Jeremy Houston, 2018-11-03 Straight Outta Natchez Volume 3 is a part of a three volume series …
The Great Natchez Tornado of 1840
The second worst tornado in U.S. history hit Natchez in 1840. It killed 317 people and injured 109. This is the only recorded tornado in the U.S. that killed more people than were injured.
The French Natchez Settlement - University of North Carolina at …
The Natchez settlement, founded in 1716, was one of the many settlements founded by the French in the Louisiana Colony. Fort Rosalie was built to protect the settlers and concessions …
The$Natchez$Diaspora:$AHistory$of$Indigenous
Who are the Natchez? The Natchez are a Native American group originally living near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi when the French first made contact in 1682. Initially, the Natchez and …
Natchez National Historical Park Foundation Document
The purpose of Natchez National Historical Park is to preserve and interpret the complex history and material culture of all the peoples of Natchez, Mississippi, emphasizing European …
Foundation Document Overview - Natchez National ... - NPS History
history and material culture of all the peoples of Natchez, Mississippi, emphasizing European settlement, African enslavement, the American cotton economy, and the Civil Rights struggle …
Natchez The City In History - lists.iearn.org
In this volume, Randolph Delehanty presents the captivating and ironic history of Natchez, identifying the architectural evidence of each era and relating it to the social and economic …
THE SOUTH EAST: COY’S HOUSE, NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPI. - PBS
30 Mar 2011 · Civil War was home to a slave-owning white aristocracy, who were some of the richest people on Earth. Natchez, Mississippi, was their crown jewel and playground.
HISTORY OF WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - MRCC
Natchez, Mississippi Figure 1. Location of Natchez, Mississippi, plotted on a current map of western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Natchez and southwestern Mississippi were …
The Journal of Mississippi History
of Mississippi History in 1939. Hamilton served as assistant editor of the Journal from 1939 to 1952. This paper was presented at the 1967 annual meeting of the Mississippi Historical …
THE NATCHEZ DIASPORA: A HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS
Natchez established many new communities after 1731: some Natchez eventually settled in colonial South Carolina while others established Natchez communities among the …
The Journal of Mississippi History
The Journal of Mississippi History is a juried journal. Each article is reviewed by a specialist scholar before publication. Periodicals paid at Jackson, Mississippi. Postmaster: Send address …
MELROSE - NPS History
Natchez National Historical Park was created in 1988 "topreserve and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi as a sig nificant city in the history of the American South." Melrose is the …
The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731
On November 28, 1729, the Natchez Indians massacred more than two hundred settlers at Fort Rosalie, a French post in the area of present-day Natchez, Mississippi.
The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture
What makes the NAPAC Museum so unique is that it collects history that is only native to Natchez, Mississippi. The rich heritage of the African American culture is interpreted through …
Anderson, Aaron D. Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, …
Mississippi’s 1890 constitution, most blacks were disenfranchised. Between 1899 and 1901, the number of black registered voters in one ward in Natchez fell from 93 to 9. Anderson’s study …
Research in the Spanish Borderlands: Mississippi, 1779-1798
The name Spanish Mississippi as used in this study refers only to the Natchez district governed by Spain from New Orleans between the years 1779-1798. The Mississippi River formed the …
The Natchez War Revisited: Violence, Multinational Settlements, …
IN November 1729, a group of Natchez warriors from White Apple attacked the French settlement that adjoined their village along the Mississippi River. Under the pretense of a diplomatic visit, …
Indian Country to Slave Country - JSTOR
The Transformation of Natchez during the American Revolution By Brandon Layton From 1775 to 1778, the British inhabitants of Natchez hoped that the relative isolation of their agricultural …
History Of Natchez Mississippi - netsec.csuci.edu
History Of Natchez Mississippi history of natchez mississippi: Straight Outta Natchez Jeremy Houston, 2018-11-03 Straight Outta Natchez Volume 3 is a part of a three volume series …
The Great Natchez Tornado of 1840
The second worst tornado in U.S. history hit Natchez in 1840. It killed 317 people and injured 109. This is the only recorded tornado in the U.S. that killed more people than were injured.
The French Natchez Settlement - University of North Carolina at …
The Natchez settlement, founded in 1716, was one of the many settlements founded by the French in the Louisiana Colony. Fort Rosalie was built to protect the settlers and concessions …
The$Natchez$Diaspora:$AHistory$of$Indigenous
Who are the Natchez? The Natchez are a Native American group originally living near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi when the French first made contact in 1682. Initially, the Natchez and …
Journal of Mississippi History - University of Southern Mississippi
In April 1815, the city of Natchez received the exciting news that “Old Hickory” himself was going to stop at Natchez on his return to his home in Tennessee.
Natchez National Historical Park Foundation Document
The purpose of Natchez National Historical Park is to preserve and interpret the complex history and material culture of all the peoples of Natchez, Mississippi, emphasizing European …
Foundation Document Overview - Natchez National ... - NPS History
history and material culture of all the peoples of Natchez, Mississippi, emphasizing European settlement, African enslavement, the American cotton economy, and the Civil Rights struggle …
Natchez The City In History - lists.iearn.org
In this volume, Randolph Delehanty presents the captivating and ironic history of Natchez, identifying the architectural evidence of each era and relating it to the social and economic …
THE SOUTH EAST: COY’S HOUSE, NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPI. - PBS
30 Mar 2011 · Civil War was home to a slave-owning white aristocracy, who were some of the richest people on Earth. Natchez, Mississippi, was their crown jewel and playground.
HISTORY OF WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - MRCC
Natchez, Mississippi Figure 1. Location of Natchez, Mississippi, plotted on a current map of western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Natchez and southwestern Mississippi were …
The Journal of Mississippi History
of Mississippi History in 1939. Hamilton served as assistant editor of the Journal from 1939 to 1952. This paper was presented at the 1967 annual meeting of the Mississippi Historical …
THE NATCHEZ DIASPORA: A HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS
Natchez established many new communities after 1731: some Natchez eventually settled in colonial South Carolina while others established Natchez communities among the …
The Journal of Mississippi History
The Journal of Mississippi History is a juried journal. Each article is reviewed by a specialist scholar before publication. Periodicals paid at Jackson, Mississippi. Postmaster: Send address …
MELROSE - NPS History
Natchez National Historical Park was created in 1988 "topreserve and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi as a sig nificant city in the history of the American South." Melrose is the …
The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731 - JSTOR
On November 28, 1729, the Natchez Indians massacred more than two hundred settlers at Fort Rosalie, a French post in the area of present-day Natchez, Mississippi.
The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture
What makes the NAPAC Museum so unique is that it collects history that is only native to Natchez, Mississippi. The rich heritage of the African American culture is interpreted through …
Anderson, Aaron D. Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, …
Mississippi’s 1890 constitution, most blacks were disenfranchised. Between 1899 and 1901, the number of black registered voters in one ward in Natchez fell from 93 to 9. Anderson’s study …
Research in the Spanish Borderlands: Mississippi, 1779-1798
The name Spanish Mississippi as used in this study refers only to the Natchez district governed by Spain from New Orleans between the years 1779-1798. The Mississippi River formed the …
The Natchez War Revisited: Violence, Multinational Settlements, …
IN November 1729, a group of Natchez warriors from White Apple attacked the French settlement that adjoined their village along the Mississippi River. Under the pretense of a diplomatic visit, …
Indian Country to Slave Country - JSTOR
The Transformation of Natchez during the American Revolution By Brandon Layton From 1775 to 1778, the British inhabitants of Natchez hoped that the relative isolation of their agricultural …
