Jul 4 A Picnic at Longwood
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-07-04

Cortez Adams, a senior at Trinity Episcopal, presents a Natchez History Minute about a Freedmens picnic at Longwood on this day July 4th in 1867. Throngs crowded the downtown streets of Natchez before moving in an orderly fashion down the Woodville Road to hear an address by James Mercer Langston.