Natchez Historical Society: An Unholy Traffic

NATCHEZ HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S SEPTEMBER MEETING
AN UNHOLY TRAFFIC: SLAVE TRADING IN THE CIVIL WAR SOUTH
FEATURING ROBERT K.D. COLBY, PH.D. – AUTHOR &amp; OLE MISS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 22, 2026

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

HISTORIC NATCHEZ FOUNDATION BUILDING
108 SOUTH COMMERCE STREET
Join us at 5:30 pm for a hospitality social followed by a bit of history beginning at 6:00 pm.

Author and Ole Miss assistant professor of history, Robert K. D. Colby, Ph.D., describes in his review of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (University Press) that he “explores the survival of the domestic slave trade during the Civil War, using wartime slave commerce to examine the endurance of Confederate nationalism, economic and social life during the war, and the contested onset of African-American freedom.”

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