Natchez 300th Anniversary Special | Mississippi Roads | MPB

Walt visits Natchez to celebrate the city’s 300th birthday. Join him as he takes us to Emerald Mound, one of the nation’s largest Indian mounds, then visits with famed Natchez author Greg Iles to learn about the city’s colorful history. Walt also explores how the Mississippi River made Natchez one of the richest cities in America, but also made it the location of an infamous slave market, the Forks of the Road. Movie producer and Natchez native Jennifer Ogden Combs tells how the 300th birthday has brought all segments of the Natchez community together, reflecting on their city’s legacy in new ways.
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[@Vv08991]

This is RIDICULOUS 20,000 PPL died and this is the convo 🤦🏾‍♀️ this is CRAZY

[@flolan11]

I said the Same thing

[@Vv08991]

@@flolan11 its sooooo many just like this that I LITERALLY NVRRRRRR knew about. Its sad to know the REAL TRUTH

[@vickiestrong6947]

Exactly.

[@TheJazzyRedTalkShow]

Wow they never mentioned the Blacks were left to die in a big Ditch and they never mentioned the peach trees

[@Vv08991]

@@TheJazzyRedTalkShow its an awful story I cant well I can believe they chose to skip that part.. 😔 WICKED

[@huskylovinmom9379]

I was born in Natchez but my dad moved around a lot following oil rig jobs so I have no memory of Natchez. I don't know where we lived. I was borned very premature & there were no NICU'S back then. You either made it or you didn't. I was a twin but my mother lost my twin at about 5 months & it hadn't developed enough to know the gender. My mother fought to not have a d&c after losing my twin saying she was still carrying a baby. That was unheard of in 1948. So I was born at 7 1/2 months, small and a blue baby. The doctor said I was not living but thanks to a wonderful nurse there in the hospital, which I never knew her name, she would not give up on me. She kept rubbing my little body warming me up, shaking me & blowing in my face until finally I took a breath. My mother was crying & thanking her. The nurse told her I was a fighter. I was. I had asthma & pneumonia often but here I am, 75 years old & still fighting health issues & winning. God just had a plan for me. I want to visit Natchez soon just to see were I made my entrance to this world & sadly I can't go back & find that nurse who cared enough to not quit on me.

[@user-qx5pk4io6f]

Born and raised in Mississippi love Mississippi

[@lulatorrey6360]

BORNINNATCHEZTOOLOVEPEACEBLESSINGALWAYSSTAYSAFE

[@haroldharwell7078]

This past year my wife & I drove from Natchez up to Jackson... It was beautiful. Hopefully we will be able to finish that drive one day...

[@blackberrylady6025]

Loves Mississippi...Great beautiful state...Many sweet people of all COLORS....Great video..thanks

[@pinkstarburst4390]

black berry very true! 👍💚💚🍉🌳🐊

[@haroldharwell7078]

Mississippi is a wonderful place, people are good , friendly & beautiful. There is no color to it .

[@boogitybear2283]

I love going to the Mississippi Coast. Highly underrated.

[@derth9230]

@@boogitybear2283 I live in natchez and the coast is not too far.

[@tonyvaldes8352]

Mississippi is a beautiful state.Drove through SR 61 on my way to Arkansas(Winter 1980).

[@carywest9256]

Don't you mean US61( The Blues Highway).

[@traceym.8680]

The last time I was there was in 1981,,,,Lord I fell in love with this city, and I Wish I could get back down there again!!

[@purplexxe8]

Lest we not forget the devil's punchbowl that they've conveniently OMITTED from this historical account. Interestingly enough, not one bit surprised. 🤔😐

[@578sundriedAZ]

Both Armies committed atrocities. Even the quakers.. puff piece🥐🍥🥧

[@578sundriedAZ]

It hurts the decendants that inherited the property

[@jimjones4422]

history is fake everything they program us with is fake!

[@pinkstarburst4390]

thats so true! i was thinking the "punchbowl massacre" would be mentioned as well. Natchez is sacred land to Black aboriginal North Americans(we not all from Africa in fact most Black Americans are not from Africa at all. They are native to America)...thats why so many Black people returned almost overnight after being freed from slavery. and thats why the massacre. Thousands and thousands of us arrived overnight. They could not have us on our homeland. because Abraham Lincolns plan was in progress to "send Black back to Africa". ...when in fact our ancestors had never been. Abraham Lincoln did not believe that Blacks could ever live with Whites in America. he called his deportation plan of freed blacks "the colonization"....and it was this lie about Africa and sending us "back"...

[@pinkstarburst4390]

Skinny Bones Jones it was a Jewish holocaust to be more specific than European. They were targeting the Jews.

[@bannedheretic2971]

Just visited Natchez for the first time. Definitely has a unique, charm about it. Lots of history. Beautiful architecture. Seemed to be economically depressed. Couldn't find a cafe or restaurant in the downtown area.

[@TXMEDRGR]

They didn't mention that the born into slavery, biracial barber, William T. Johnson, owned slaves and mentions using the whip on them in his diary. He owned a farm outside of town, as well as employed enslaved barbers in his shops. The Barber of Natchez by Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan is an excellent book and really gives one a view into the daily life of the antebellum Natchez and Mr. Johnson in particular.

[@joeconnor1821]

Black barber*

[@user-qx5pk4io6f]

Was born and raised in Mississippilove Mississippi had so good times and some bad i was 9yrs old when Emmitt Till was murdered i was scared for months after that happened i remember when ialmost lost my life at20yrs old

[@travisjthompson2]

@@user-qx5pk4io6f what happened when you were 20?

[@jerematthewjohnson9310]

thank you for posting

[@maryettamoody5079]

Wonderful loved it thank I you keep them coming

[@deeelle697]

We went on a field trip to Natchez, & as a black girl-this place completely creeped me out. They kept romanticizing the architecture & history like they do in this documentary. 😕

[@AshaA2]

Dee Elle Im watching this because I thought about taking a cruise on the Mississippi and this is one stop. I am a history lover and love to learn about everywhere (even though it’s not always pretty or makes me uncomfortable as a person of color) but I HATE romanticization especially for a place like this that has a lot of negative history. They think rewriting or omitting things is a way forward but it actually is why we keep going in circles.

[@Superior_Mindz88]

Never wanted to go to Natchez ever ever it just didn’t sit right in my spirit. . I know Natchez is full of Witchcraft

[@Superior_Mindz88]

Oh yea they stole that land from the Natchez And Wiped them out As a tribe. Tell the Indian story about Natchez.

[@damicacee4962]

Native Americans weren’t wiped out. European settlers made it illegal to speak their language & practice their customs. Then most of them were forced west, & the rest blended with the black community.

[@derth9230]

@@damicacee4962 Yeah. I have a little bit of native american in my family and even my third great grandmother was half white.

[@OkatomaMud]

Great job, Walt.

[@dixiepourciau9725]

Natchez is one of the few places that has a lot of southern history. Been there many time. La history has been wipe out by storms.

[@MrPoppadog1955]

Our first visit to Natchez was just recent. found it just fascinating didn't get to see all and will make sure to go back. people were just great places were wonderful, and the history that is there is necessary today as ever. thanks for posting this

[@framedelvisguy1727]

I was raised there

[@davisx2002]

been there... its awesome. well worth the time and money spent.

[@ozekeo8854]

How can u say they abandoned? What did the French the Spanish and English say when they drove the natives out.

[@DasDutchman56]

I loved Natchez, lived there 1980-1986.

[@christinapfeifer1864]

If you love it why aren't you still there?

[@billieblessed777]

12:12 Not all whites feel like him

[@NicholeCarterMusic]

Thank you kill bill

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

Well done!

[@kensteffes6712]

Natchez is awesome! Its in the most liberal country in the state of Missouri and thats why its soo great. Adams county! It represents the true American spirit of freedom.

[@josephcockburn1402]

I live 200 feet away from the Natchez Trace.

[@corym8358]

Natchez is an American treasure. Thank you for this nice documentary. Of course there are bitter and hateful people who only want to focus on the negative. Those people have sad lives.

[@daisymo7458]

They have sad lives because they’re copping with knowing that our ancestors were BURIED where your people WALKED.

[@corym8358]

@@daisymo7458 lolol. ok snowflake.

[@elizabethjones1545]

This video is a slap in the face

[@royogden2536]

I love history, there is no better way to learn the facts as long as they tell the truth.

[@rdmc96]

THE DEVIL'S PUNCH BOWL

[@officialdirtmcgurt]

"Upper midwest states such as: Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri." This historian is super duper Deep down Mississippian, I like the moxie and the magnolia state mentality.

[@jameslookstwice]

I'm from Middle Tennessee I love the Trace but I don't wanna be there at night it's creepy near the Maury -Hickman co.border we are doing erosion control and I love working outside on the Trace but just not at night lol

[@jehovahuponyou]

T. M. McSLURRY (GREAT TILLER BUILDER FOR STEAM BOATS) ONCE STAYED OVER NIGHT IN BOATMAN CREEK MISSISSIPPI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@forest792]

👍👍

[@ihearya4405]

I've been to Natchez ONCE...had a creepy feeling the ENTIRE time there and was sick to my stomach. Felt fine when I left!!

[@MoniMeka]

13:33 we don't know how he learned how to read and write. We were tryin' our best to keep it from him... She knows she wanted to say that 🙄

[@fiddlemusik]

You mean "THEY were trying to keep it from him." Words matter.

[@TheEllison757]

What about the devil's punchbowl

[@andrewbrandmusic1971]

Bishop Gunn sent me here 😎🤘

[@tonguedrumandgroove3495]

What about the punchbowl???

[@flolan11]

Exactly

[@michelej9496]

Possibly they were interested in hearing that part of history in this content.

[@coreygrua3271]

A very fine, truthful presentation. Thanks for sharing it on KZbin. This represents so much good work.

[@johnny970]

All I saw there were Zombie like people walking around without Souls.

[@MikeCharles62]

Its truly Horrible how this guy can tell such incorrect Mississippi History.Heres a news flash those were Creek people that was force to leave !!!

[@pinkstarburst4390]

the Natchez Indians are the Black Americans of that area the so called "african slaves"..only a very small amount of Africans were brought to United States as slaves. Love my homestate,Mississippi. Some of the sweetest people in the world💛Great Video! Thank you.💚🌳🐊

[@cocolyndon4604]

Natchez was the most active African slave trading city in the state of MS.

[@Agentmg17]

Slaves and slave ships were insured, so everything was carefully cataloged. They know almost exactly how many slaves came over. Not to mention that shark migration shifted due to the number of slaves (alive/dead) they threw over. Ships were so stinky (due to the sick enslaved) it was said the ships could be smelled for miles.

[@carywest9256]

@@Agentmg17 The very reason they were required to ride in the rear of buses.

[@michaelclark7450]

I'm from natchez born and raised it's beautiful but truly oppressed and the history is horrible

[@johnclark1612]

What's not ever mentioned is that European Caucasian people built alot of these mounds,we call them Indians to pasify the whiney natives

[@michaelclark7450]

The people there truly need reparations

[@elizabethjones1545]

The pictures of those children are death poses

[@pennypuppy100]

Not true... My Grandmother is in one of those Gandy photos and she lived to a "ripe old age"... Mr. Gandy was a photographer of all citizens of Natchez.

[@mikewilson8054]

see all that cotton.

[@tee-fx9ko]

The Devil’s Punch bowl

[@oneprettycookie7446]

That's all black land

[@marydortch9034]

Please tell the true history why are you keep lying you have been lying for 400 years

[@chrisallen7911]

I despise everyone today feeling like they have to make apologies for things that occured 150 or more years ago. One can't visit a historic site in the South anymore without that uncomfortable stuttering talk of Slavery, bla, bla, bla. How about going back to the Hospitality of the 1930s and welcoming people to these magnificent homes and towns. Make the people feel they are an honored guest and let them enjoy the beauty without the Guilt of our Ancestors Culture.

[@tremichaelbrown3525]

Chris Allen i despise people who are so uncomfortable in their whiteness that the thought of teaching someone the atrocities that your ancestors and their counterparts put others through eats you alive . It happened it will be talked about and you will learn to deal with it , it’s that simple .

[@NicholeCarterMusic]

You are ignorant

[@AshaA2]

Teaching history is making apologies?? What are you talking about? It’s HISTORY just speaking on things that happened in the past. That’s it

[@NicholeCarterMusic]

@@tremichaelbrown3525 BOOM! You Betta Preach!

[@jamesa77522]

You deserve everything that is coming to you

[@jerrellnelson8167]

There was slavery...but then it was Natchez

[@elizabethjones1545]

A klansman in a green sheet

[@Sandy-pr5qq]

Those slaves that built the elaborate homes had to be taught those skills. They were not born with this ability. It was the same all over the country where slavery was instituted.

[@andrerichmond296]

sandy f but who built the homes?? ok..

[@Sandy-pr5qq]

@@andrerichmond296 gosh i dont know.

[@Marcia6683]

Slaves came from Africa. They were natural carpenters, craftsmen, builders and farmers. Historically Africa has some of the oldest stone architecture in the world. They brought their tools and knowledge of how to plant and work the land in the hot climate of the south that Europeans had no knowledge. Africans brought seeds and planted their food which was not naturally grown in the US at that time. Why do you think that Whites were reluctantly to end slavery? Because they did not have a clue about how to harvest, complete craftsmanship, work machines that the slaves invented or even cook basic meals. Your statement is not only ignorant but blatantly racist to think that Africans had zero brain cells or knowledge prior to meeting the white man. Let's get it right. The black man was not an animal that needed to be trained! Your statement is bloody stupid and offensive. Yes there were poor whites but they benefited from slavery too and were not treated as slaves. Please do not even try to compare. I do not hear you saying that your white relatives were freedom fighters or stood up for equality? Your people benefitted from white privilege. So please do not act as if you forefathers were exempt. So please educate yourself on African history before you comment.......THE WHITE MAN DID NOT CIVILISE THE BLACK MAN. THE BLACK MAN WAS STOLEN FROM THEIR LAND. NOT ONLY FOR PHYSICAL PURPOSES BUT BECAUSE OF THE SKILLS AND RICHES THEY BOUGHT WHICH ENHANCED THE LIFE OF THE WHITE MAN.

[@Sandy-pr5qq]

@@Marcia6683 that is pretty stupid. If they were kidnapped from Africa to be brought back and sold as slaves I doubt that they just happened to have their tools with them. If they were such great builders where were grand metropolis and cities that they built. Some stone structures dont add up to equal a majority of them being able to build grand structures. As for being farmers, maybe but I doubt that they had seeds on their person when they were kidnapped. The slave holders didnt need them to show how to plant cotton or sugar cane or any of the other things that were grown on the plantations.. Slave holders didnt want slavery to end because they wanted to continue with the free labor. You seem to be having delusions of grandeur about Africans because the whole case is not nearly as glamorous on either side. You just rattled off all of the modern day talking points that you hear on tv. I am racist and have white privilege. Those old lines are getting old.I didn't say that the slaves were stupid if they were then they couldnt have been taught to do the things that they did. What makes you think I am white anyway? You wasted your racism rant on the wrong race.

[@Marcia6683]

@@Sandy-pr5qq you certainly are stupid. (Sigh)The Europeans not only stole them but they also took their tools, weapons, seeds, food, trees, livestock, animals, gold, minerals, diamonds, sugar, fruit, coffee, exotic foods, art, fabrics, coloured fabrics, make up, beads, musical instruments, the drum, lotions and creams, medicines.... I could go on for ever and ever and absolute forever, but I know there is no point in even trying to educate a dim wit. I suggest that you Google ANCIENT AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE. You will be amazed that historically many African nations were living in stone houses centuries before Europeans were. Where else can you find a stone building in Europe dating back to 500BC? No there are no longer cities as the Europeans destroyed them. The reason why Europeans went exploring is because the African Moors got into a boat and went to Europe. The Europeans were amazed to discover that they arrived with such riches. The Europeans placed value on these riches and made them commodies which the Africans took for granted as their land was abundant. So the Europeans went to Africa to steal these riches. They also needed to steal the people so that they can show the Europeans how to use, grow or make the things they took back to Europe. It's so fightening how uneducated people like you should even have the gull to talk🤐 with such conviction when you clearly know nothing about the worlds history. I suggest you go online and read, read, read.....or if that is too much of a task there are hundreds of KZbin videos that can fill your brain with some wisdom......oh yes....if you are not white, which you are, then I pity you more....... so sad🤥

[@BlakJakk]

Stop lying

[@sandramcclure2598]

What about the first slaves in America , The Irish children . who will receive their reparation's ? Ill wait .

[@bennettayoung6357]

Were they perpetual slaves forever or indentured until there debt was paid? There is a big difference. One of the other reasons why they used black slaves is because they could not blend in. Their skin color was a marker. Some of the indentured slaves escaped and could blend in with the rest of the white population.

[@carywest9256]

And yer still a waiting aintcha?

[@w619hunt40]

When Satan tells the story he leaves out all the genocide he committed, and hatred, etc...

[@robsemail]

Slavery in the USA was a christian institution. There were no satanist slaveowners.