Prince Ibrahima

Freedom cost Abdul-Rahman Ibrahima his Natchez allies. Thomas Foster agreed to free him in 1827 or 1828 on condition that he leave at once for Liberia, but Ibrahima spent months touring northern cities, often dressed as a Muslim prince, to raise money for his family's freedom. Editor Andrew Marschalk, who had publicized his case, turned against him, and the quarrel fed national politics. Ibrahima and his wife Isabella sailed in 1829; he died in Liberia that July. Eight of their children and their families remained enslaved in Mississippi.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emerald Mound — 5.0 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.
• Forks of the Road — 5.2 mi
  The 1832-1863 slave market a mile east of downtown Natchez, the second busiest in the Deep South, now a Natchez National Historical Park site with exhibit panels.
• Melrose Estate — 5.5 mi
  A Greek Revival estate in Natchez, now a National Park Service site, interpreted through the people who were enslaved there as well as the McMurran family.
• Grand Village of the Natchez Indians — 6.0 mi
  The Natchez capital on St. Catherine Creek, where the Great Sun lived, with two mounds rebuilt to the shape the French recorded in 1723.

More markers nearby

• Dr. John W. Monette — steps away
• Washington — steps away
• St. Catherine Creek Italian Colony — 3.1 mi
• Richard Wright — 5.4 mi