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Devil's Punchbowl

Italy

The Devil's Punchbowl was a refugee camp created in Natchez, Mississippi after the American Civil War in an attempt to address a huge influx of self-emancipated enslaved persons. A number of compounding issues led to a large number of deaths. Historians place the number of deaths at 2,000. In narrat

ives by proponents of the Confederate States of America's legacy, the number 20,000 is often claimed; no evidence for that number exists.

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