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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Natchez National Historical ParkFort Rosalie: Original drawing by Gen. G. H. V. Collot, 1796, courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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Emerald Mound: courtesy Minnesota State University

The Natchez Indians

Click on the picture at the left to learn more about the Native Americans that once inhabited the Natchez region.

 
1770 rendition of plans for Fort Rosalie: courtesy Library of Congress

The Region's Early Settlers

Click on the picture at the left to learn more about the early European settlers in the Natchez area.
American free blacks  

Did You Know?
During the antebellum period, Natchez Mississippi was the home of over two hundred and fifty free blacks. The largest number of free blacks lived in New Orleans and numbered over two thousand.

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