West Africans from the Bambara Nation were brought to Natchez Mississippi by the French in 1719. By 1723 the French settlement inhabitants was 303 with over 1/3 being of African descent. The English and Spanish controlled the area after the French expanding slavery. Natchez also had the largest population of Free People of Color in the state of Mississippi, Some were born into slavery and then set free and others were born free.
Names associated with the Free People of color in Natchez Mississippi:
- Johnson
- Price
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