America’s Domestic “Slave” Trading History At Natchez, Mississippi Forks Of The Road Markets
“BLACKS” IN THE CIVIL WAR AND ‘SELF EMANCIPATION’
New Unprecedented Traveling Exhibition – National Debut
Guest Speaker, Elder Clifford ‘Ser’ Boxley,
Friends of the Forks in the Road Society
Exhibit Opening & Diaspora Discussion:
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
2:00 pm – BCC Room MP-I
6:30 pm BCC – Room MP-II
PURDUE UNIVERSITY BLACK CULTURAL CENTER
1100 3rd Street (corner of 3rd and Russell)
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Until now, the story about America’s internal domestic “slave” trade from the upper eastern seaboard and mid-west states to the deep southwestern states via Natchez, Mississippi has been largely untold except for a few articles in periodicals and certain inclusions in several scholarly written history books. “Historic Natchez” proper was a center of chattel slavery and the selling of enslaved people.
The historic Natchez’s Forks-of-the-Roads juncture where the second largest enslavement selling-market in the southwest, excepting New Orleans Louisiana, was located from 1833 until the Union Army occupied Natchez in 1863 remains!
For more information 765-494-3094 or anders50@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/bcc
Jolivette Anderson-Douoning, MA
(MA & PhD Grad Student American Studies)
Cultural Liaison & Program Specialist
Purdue Black Cultural Center
1100 Third Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3094 ph.
(765) 496-1915 fax
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