Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Marker honoring Prince Ibrahima to be dedicated Oct. 24

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  Marker honoring Prince Ibrahima to be dedicated Oct. 24 A historical marker honoring Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima (1762-1829) will be dedi...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Dr. Christian Pinnen to discuss Race and Slavery in Colonial Natchez on April 22

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Dr. Christian Pinnen, professor in the Department of History at Mississippi College, is coming   to Natchez to talk about the colonial Natch...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Remembering the Enslaved: Delia -- A guest post by Tom Scarborough

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This is an oil portrait that has been in my family since the 1840s. It is of an enslaved woman named Delia.  She was the house se...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

An Evening at the Slave Quarters

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Enjoyed Saturday evening at Concord Quarters. Dinner was superb and we got to hear about The Slave Dwelling Project by its director ...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Cherry Grove

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Cherry Grove: A Ghost Tale All around the old place, the dead visit. The day he opened up the trunk of that sweetgum tree,...
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Friday, October 6, 2017

More on South-West by a Yankee - Treatment of Slaves 1835

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A description of Natchez, written in 1835 by Joseph Holt Ingraham. Offered without comment: "Many of the planters are nort...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Saving Prospect Hill

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The Archaeological Conservancy is making a final push to get funds to repair the roof at Prospect Hill. If they can raise $35,000, the hou...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

An Old Book; A New Chapter, Part II

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I don't really have time for a long blog post, but this entry was so delicious, I just had to share: Wed. June 3 I got out of Gen...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

An Old Book; A New Chapter

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Arthur Freemantle I'm moving shortly and, as such, have been going through things deciding what to keep and what to leave.  I hav...
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