Hidden History of Natchez

Josh Foreman, Ryan Starrett

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439672990
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Since prehistory, the bluffs of Natchez have called to the bold, the cruel and the quietly determined. The diverse opportunists who heeded that call have left behind more than three hundred years of colorful and tragic stories. The Natchez Indians, who inhabited the bluffs at the time of European contact, made a calculated but ultimately catastrophic decision to massacre the French who had settled nearby. William Johnson, a Black man who occupied a tenuous position between two worlds, found wealth and status in antebellum Natchez. In the wake of Union occupation, thousands of the formerly enslaved became the city's protective garrison. Join authors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman and rediscover the people who toiled and bled to make Natchez one of the most unique and interesting cities in America.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. “They Were Disturbed by Their Cries and Tears”: The 1729 Massacre at Natchez
• Chapter 2. The Man Who Loved His King: Natchez Loses a Father
• Chapter 3. Travel Rabble: Transients in the Frontier Days
• Chapter 4. From King to Slave: The Tragic, Dignified Life of Prince Abdulrahman Ibrahima
• Chapter 5. The Filibusters: The Adventures of James Willing, Philip Nolan, James Bowie and John A. Quitman
• Chapter 6. “There’s a Better Day a Coming”: The Natchez Slave Trade
• Chapter 7. The Saga of William Johnson, the Barber of Natchez
• Chapter 8. Black Soldier of the Republic
• Chapter 9. Faulkner Told the Truth: Dick Dana and Octavia Dockery, Beneficiaries of the “Lost Cause”
• Chapter 10. The Tragedy: A Fire Wounds Natchez, and the Nation
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Authors