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.
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 | 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.
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 | Properties associated with the family of Felicite
Gireaudeau who systematically sent slaves to Cincinnati for
manumission.
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 | Slave Rebellion Sites Jefferson County &
Tensas Parish, ca May 10, 1861; Adams County, May-September, 1861; Second
Creek & Natchez Uprising.
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 | Properties associated with legal challenges to slavery the
Jefferson County case ca. 1840, involving emancipation under the terms of a
will.
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 | Properties associated with documented slave escapes escaped
slave Davy, harbored by Harry Scott in his hen house at Waverly, between
Brighton and Second Creek.
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