01:512:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James Henry Hammond, Cotton Gin, Flatboat
8 Nov 2016
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Many flatboatmen were angry because the town council of natchez enacted a restrictive tax per flatboat, designed to get rid of the most impoverished and disreputable flatboatmen in the natchez-under-the-hill. The militia was called in and the crowd of angry people fell back. This was the first of many confrontations in the flatboat wars around the. The french destroyed the natchez indians in this area around the 1720s and many different-raced people moved there. In 1798, natchez-under-the-hill was most important center of settlement in old southwest, but afr americans and slaves were settling. Natchez planters were part of the elite class with thousands of slaves picking cotton, but didn"t live near. They started mingling w/ the natchez townspeople and disturbed the social boundary. After the slave revolt by nat turner, ppl nervous about intermixing. Boatmen & traders of natchez essential for planters, but their racial mix dangerous.
