The preserved and interpreted location of one of the largest domestic slave markets in the antebellum South. The site is part of Natchez National Historical Park and should be presented directly as a place of enslavement and forced sale, not softened into generic antebellum tourism.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nps.gov/natc/learn/historyculture/slave-market-at-the-forks-of-the-road.htm