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Free People of Color in Colonial Natchez (1700-1798) | Mississippi History Now
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160; Articles. Free People of Color in Colonial Natchez (1700-1798). The French constructed Fort Rosalie on the Mississippi River in 1716 near the site of Natchez. Image courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Illustrated map of Fort Rosalie in French Natchez with seal, circa 1729. Image courtesy of the Natchez Historical Society, Scharff Collection, P-14. Free People of Color in Colonial Natchez (1700-1798). Status of free blacks in colonial Natchez. Free black people occupied t...
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Editorial Staff and Advisory Board. Editorial Staff and Advisory Board. Mhnow@mdah.state.ms.us. Peggy W. Jeanes. Editor Emerita, 2000 – 2012. Karla Smith, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Deanne Stephens Nuwer, Ph.D., 2010 – Present. Richard Damms, Ph.D., 2006 – 2010. Greg O’Brien, Ph.D., 2003 – 2006. John Ray Skates, Ph.D., 2000 – 2003. Nominations are currently being sought for the John K. Bettersworth Award. Major General Joseph Fant. Richard J. Hale. Kenneth G. McCarty Jr., Ph.D.
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Antebellum Mississippi | Mississippi History Now
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160; Articles. Map of the lands in Mississippi ceded by Chickasaws in 1832 and 1834. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, File 8152-1-map. Advertisement for slave sales at the Forks of the Road from the Natchez Daily Courier, November 27, 1858. (The Louisiana Guarantee refers to that state’s more generous buyer-protection laws concerning the slave trade.) Below, similar advertisement for mules. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The vast majority o...
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Mississippi Blues | Mississippi History Now
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160; Articles. Down the Dirt Road Blues album cover, reproduced in Stefan Grossman,. Photograph courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. High Water Everywhere, from Stefan Grossman,. Broadcast the King Biscuit Time show from Helena, Arkansas. WROX. Microphone in collection of Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, Mississippi. The music called the blues that emerged from Mississippi has shaped the development of popular music in this country and around the world. And what about rap? When Africa...
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