Researchers to Study Natchez’s Role In Underground Railroad
NATCHEZ, Miss.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has enlisted researchers from an Alabama college to conduct a document search to determine what sites in Natchez were linked to the Underground Railroad.
Such sites are likely “because (enslaved) people were coming from as far as northwest Alabama and southwest Tennessee,” says Dr. Robert Cassanello, researcher and a history professor at Miles College in Fairfield, Ala. “Natchez was a place people could meet and know they could escape easily through the port there.”
