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: Claire of Natchez — The Legend, The Evidence, The History
A popular modern retelling claims an enslaved woman named Claire (often “Clara”) poisoned an entire plantation household in Natchez. Extensive searches of major local archives and institutional histories turn up no clear primary-source evidence for this specific event. The legend fits broader documented patterns — enslaved women accused of poisoning and acts of covert resistance — and has been amplified by modern true-crime and folklore channels. Read on for the archival search, the folklore trail, and what we can say with confidence. mdah.ms.gov+2Historic Natchez Foundation+2 Why this matters Natchez is a city with a deep and complicated history: it was a major slave-trading center and a wealthy antebellum town. Stories about resistance, violence, and survival among the enslaved re...
The Lesser-Told Story of the Tougaloo Nine:
“The Tougaloo Nine and the Fight for Equal Access to Public Libraries, 1961.” When most people think of civil rights sit-ins, they envision lunch counters and picket lines. Fewer remember the quiet, deliberate courage of nine students from Tougaloo College who walked into the whites-only Jackson Public Library on March 27, 1961, and read. That “read-in” — which led to arrests, courtroom battles, and national reverberations — sits at the intersection of two essentials: the fight for civil rights and the fight for equal education. This post tells the story of the Tougaloo Nine, explains why libraries mattered, and argues that access to books and information was as central to the movement as voting rights and public accommodations. BlackPast.orgZinn Education Project Why a Library? Why Tougal...
Unveiling of Anne Moody’s Freedom Trail marker set for September 15
By: Roscoe Barnes, III, Visit Natchez The late Anne Moody, author of “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” will soon be honored with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker in her hometown of Centreville. The marker will be unveiled in a ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, September 15 at Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, 8755 Highway 24 East. The event is free to the public. Frances Jefferson, Moody’s sister, said she and her family are elated about the marker. “I’m very excited for the unveiling of the Freedom Trail marker on September 15, Anne’s 85th birthday,” she said. “I’m grateful to everyone involved in securing this honor for my sister.” The Freedom Trail markers are administered by the Mississippi Humanities Council, in partnership with Visit Mississippi. The markers honor the courage and d...
Film Review: Natchez
On August 21, 2025, I had the privilege of attending the screening of Natchez, a new documentary directed by Susannah Herbert. Having met Herbert and members of her crew during production, I was immediately curious about how she would approach a city as layered and complex as ours. Natchez is not simply the oldest settlement on the Mississippi River—it is a place where cultures collided and reshaped one another: French, English, and Spanish influence paving the way to American identity. It is also a city marked by both resilience and trauma, where the lives of enslaved Africans and the destruction of Native Americans are essential to the story of its development. The challenge of any filmmaker is how to tell this history truthfully—without distortion, simplification, or erasure. Too often,...
Conversations With History: The Mazique Family and Oakland Plantation
The Tides of Memory “August,” Sarah whispered the name with a weight. Not the summer breeze—but a burden of memories, of chains quietly broken at last. The auctioneer’s hammer had fallen. They owned China Grove Plantation. That was in 1870, just a few years after the war’s end—a plantation held not by the slave master, but by former slaves. WikipediaNatchez African American Museum August’s hands trembled. “We come from chains, Sarah. And yet…we own land. We own that place.” He meant more than bricks and trees. “We own our labor, our sweat, our names.” Sarah nodded, her voice steady. “We built the gin ourselves. Grew the cotton. The world tried to keep us in the sharecroppers’ shackles.” But they would not be chained again. Natchez African American MuseumMSGWEverything2 . From China Grove t...
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