The Melrose estate, a part of Natchez National Historical Park, is one of the best-preserved estates in the Deep South form the mid-1800s. Melrose helps tell the American stories of an economy based on growing cotton and the world of chattel slavery/
The William Johnson House connects visitors with the life of a free man of color and his family during the antebellum era. William Johnson, a slave who was freed, started out as a barber and eventually owned several barber shops, rental property, a farm, and timberland; he also kept a lengthy personal diary that offers insights into antebellum southern life and relations between whites and free blacks.
