Trinity Episcopal Church

In 1839 Trinity opened a basement room for a Sunday school and for assembling enslaved people for religious instruction. Bishop Leonidas Polk consecrated the 1822 brick church, on the southeast corner of Commerce and Washington streets, the next year. The church reportedly took shape over a dinner at Stephen Duncan's mansion. Around the church, enslaved people made up 7,953 of Adams County's 12,076 residents in 1820, and 14,241 of about 19,400 by 1840, the largest enslaved population of any Mississippi county.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• William Johnson House — steps away
  The brick home and shop block of a free Black barber and diarist in Natchez, who enslaved others himself and was shot by a neighbor in 1851.
• Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture — 0.2 mi
  A museum in the old 1904 post office on Main Street, opened in 1991, covering slavery, Reconstruction and the Natchez civil rights movement.
• Fort Rosalie — 0.4 mi
  The bluff where the French built Fort Rosalie in 1716 and the Natchez attacked it in 1729, now a free Natchez National Historical Park site beside the southern end of the Natchez Trace.
• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — 1.1 mi
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.

More markers nearby

• Natchez Burning — 0.2 mi
• Commercial Bank Building — 0.3 mi
• Andrew Marschalk — 0.3 mi
• Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.4 mi