The most recent plaques:
The Business of Slavery - Forks of the Road
Fueled by the closing of the interstate slave trade into Louisiana from 1831 through 1834, traders began flooding Natchez with their human cargo. With the increasing trader activity, Natchez...
- mississippi
- slavery
- civil rights
The Forced Migration - Forks of the Road
The Forks of the Road market served as a nexus of the largest forced migration of labor in American history.Between 1800 and 1860 more than 750,000 enslaved African-Americans were moved from...
- mississippi
- slavery
- civil rights