Free copies of Forks of Road Slave Markets Educational & Interpretive Brochures Available

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For: Tourism agencies, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast Inns, Tour Guides, Motels, Organizations that bring people to Natchez, Churches, history educators, etc. 

 

From: Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley, Coordinator, Friends of the Forks of the Roads Society Inc

 

Release: Free copies of National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program funded Forks of the Road Educational and Interpretive Brochures

 

 

Friends of the Forks of the Roads Society Inc will be at the Mississippi Welcome Center’s Black History Month display on Monday February 28, 2011 to distribute free copies of its Forks of the Road Enslavement markets educational and interpretive brochures.

 

These Forks of the Road brochures are Friends of the Forks of the Roads Society’s continued efforts to present and educate the public about the other side of the history that explains how historic Natchez, the southwest, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas were professionally supplied market place enslaved human commodities upon whose backs were developed the wealth, economies, governments, cities, courts and culture called southern.  

 

The brochures are professionally full color produced and printed. They contain 20 pages folds and their contents are as follows:

 

Introduction, Natchez in the Center of Slavery, Overground Railroad Passages of Sorrow to the Forks, Upper South “Slave Trade” Routes, The Forks Negro Marts Described, Exhibiting Negroes for Sale at Forks, Who Sold and Bought Negroes at the Forks, Running Away, Hiding Out and Escaping in the Natchez Region, Slavery Met Freedom at the Forks, Exiting Our Forks Story to visit Natchez, Record of a Sale at Forks and Preserving-Presenting Forks of the Road Market Sites.

They are well researched and written by Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley, designed by Shakespeare Designs and printed by Natchez’s own J & M Digital Printing Company.

 

People who come in contact with locals and out of town visitors can use our brochure to explain the sites and some of the relevant history of events.

 

The Mississippi Welcome Center is located in the Natchez Visitors Center at 640 South Canal Street and U. S. Highway 84 at the Mississippi River crossing on the Natchez side.                                  Phone: [phone]

 

Copies of brochure are available to be mailed to sources! You must contribute the cost of shipping and handling. Orders made by arrangement with Ser!

 

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