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ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE YEARS AGO NATCHEZ MS. CITY COUNCIL (BOARD OF ALDERMEN) CHASED AMERICA'S LONG DISTANCE CHATTEL "SLAVE" TRADERS OUT OF THE CITY BY PASSING AN ORDINANCE EFFECTIVE APRIL 27, 1833.

APRIL 27, 2016 MARKS THE 183RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF NATCHEZ ACTIONS THAT FORCED AMERICA'S LONG DISTANCE (FROM EASTERN AND MID-WEST STATES) DOMESTIC CHATTEL "SLAVE" TRADERS TO RELOCATE TO THEN OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS TO THE AREA HISTORICALLY NAMED THE "FORKS OF THE ROAD.

43 YEARS BEFORE DOING SO NATCHEZ WAS THE DESTINATION CITY OF BOTH INTERNATIONAL (TRANS ATLANTIC) AND AMERICA'S DOMESTIC CHATTEL"SLAVE" TRADERS.

IN OTHER WORDS...NATCHEZ MS. WAS ALWAYS A Chattel "SLAVE" TRADING CITY AND CENTER.

IT’S FORKS OF THE ROAD CHATTEL "SLAVE" TRADING MARKETS BECAME THE 2ND LARGEST "SLAVE" TRADING HUB IN THE DEEP SOUTHWEST STATES AFTER 1833.

NEW ORLEANS WAS THE LARGEST IN THE DEEP SOUTHWEST.

THE REASON NATCHEZ CITY COUNCIL DID SO WAS BECAUSE AT THE TIME AMERICA’S LARGEST DOMESTIC “SLAVE” TRADING FIRM FRANKLIN AND ARMFIELD OPERATING FROM THE EXTANT 1315 DUKE STREET BUILDING IN ALEXANDRIA VA. FORCE BROUGHT A SHIPMENT OF ENSLAVED PERSONS TO THEIR NATCHEZ SELLING MARKET HEADQUARTERS AND SEVERAL DIED OF CHOLORA. THE LEAD PARTNER ISAAC FRANKLIN HALF BURIED THE DEAD ENSLAVED PERSONS IN A NEARBY RAVINE WHERE THEY WERE SOON DISCOVERED. THIS CAUSED A PANIC TO DEVELOP AMONG THE RESIDENTS OF NATCHEZ. THUS THE CITY PASSED THE ORDINANCE BANNING THE LONG DISTANCE DEALERS FROM SELLING ENSLAVED PEOPLE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF NATCEZ.

HOWEVER, LOCAL NATCHEZ RESIDENTS WE STILL ALLOWED TO BUY AND SELL ENSLAVED PEOPLE AT VARIOUS BUSINESSES AND LOCAL VENUES ALL OVER THE CITY RIGHT UP UNTIL THE CIVIL WAR.

2016 MARKS THE 21ST YEAR SER SESHSH AB HETER-CM BOXLEY HAS LED AN EQUAL HISTORY CAMPAIGN TO PRESERVE, PRESENT AND INTERPRET THE HISTORY, STOLEN HUMANITY, AND ILL-GOTTEN GAINS AT THE FORKS OF THE ROAD CHATTEL "SLAVE" SELLING MARKETS THAT BUILT NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI, CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND TEXAS AS PART OF THE HISTORY OF “HOW SLAVERY BUILT AMERICA.”

AS NATCHEZ CELEBRATES ITS 300TH YEARS ANNIVERSARY...ASK FOLKS...WHAT ABOUT US AFRICANS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR 297+ YEARS?

 
Award Winning Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley

'You know that you are in trouble when you allow the same people who have historically oppressed you tell you your history and define your reality"... Dr. Runoko Rashidi

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Natchez, Ms. 39121

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Leader of Current Equal Human Commemorations Campaign to 
"Desegregate" History/Culture in Mississippi-Central Louisiana
Pertaining to Chattel Slavery, Black Civil War Freedom Fighters, 
19th and 20th Centuries Civil Rights and Diversity. 
Former Public Service Administrator
Veteran of San Francisco Bay Area 
Civil & Human Rights Movements

Former Ph.d Candidate Antioch Ohio
University Without Walls San Francisco
Holds California Community College Public
Services/Administration Credential 
Masters Urban and Regional Planning
California State University San Jose
B. A. Sociology, Cal. State U, San Jose
AA Business College of San Mateo Ca.
Former Community College Instructor 
Former Multli-Culture Community Development CEO Redwood City Ca.
Author & Publisher! 
Enabled Capacity Of Natchez Ms. Deacons For Defense & Justice To Defend The Natchez People Who Waged "One Of The Most Successful Economic Boycotts In Civil Rights History." Same Tri-part Methods were Applied Throughout Mississippi to win modern Civil Rights!

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