Revisiting Rivers of Freedom

Home Possible Sites Links Support Background Schedule Morning Schedule

Your Help is needed!  If you know of any sites that might be eligible for the National Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, please let us know.  Some possible sites are listed below.  If you have any information pertaining to these, or any other sites in the Natchez area come to the forum on September 23, or call (601) 442-4719

Properties associated with Gabriel Tichenor who manumitted Harriett Battles and her daughter Ann (later the wife of William Johnson), and who transported other Mississippi slaves to Newark, New Jersey, in order to free them, and probably subsequently assisted others to freedom through his home in Ohio.  

Properties associated with Elizabeth Greenfield who was a Quaker from Philadelphia married to Jesse Greenfield, a Natchez area planter.  She was the founder of Elizabeth Female Academy, which was the oldest institution of higher education for women west of the Appalachians.  She made several trips to Philadelphia, PA regularly transporting slaves to freedom, one of whom was Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, known as the Black Swan and widely regarded in Europe as one of the greatest singers of the nineteenth century.

Properties associated with the family of Felicite Gireaudeau who systematically sent slaves to Cincinnati for manumission.

Slave Rebellion Sites Jefferson County & Tensas Parish, ca May 10, 1861; Adams County, May-September, 1861; Second Creek & Natchez Uprising.

Properties associated with legal challenges to slavery the Jefferson County case ca. 1840, involving emancipation under the terms of a will.

Properties associated with documented slave escapes escaped slave Davy, harbored by Harry Scott in his hen house at Waverly, between Brighton and Second Creek.

 
Webmistress: Torrey Dukes