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Forks-of-the-Roads juncture as it appears today. The first Franklin and Armfield enslavement sale market established in 1823 existed where the white building (a beer tavern built during Jim Crow Era) on the left now stands. In 1836, Franklin and Armfield sold the first marketplace and established their second marketplace across the street where the white truck is standing. The second site was active right up to the Un-Civil War. The street running between the two sites is Liberty Road. It connected to enslavement and migration routes from Georgia, the Carolinas and Florida. The street on the left where the green light pole is Old Washington Road. It is part of the Natchez Trace and connected routes from Virginia, Maryland, Washington D C, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Pennsylvania/Ohio via the Natchez Trace. The street going to your right is St. Catherine Street. It connected the Mississippi River routes up from New Orleans and down from St. Louis via Natchez-Under-the-Hill.

The first, ever, annual Ancestral Commemoration ceremony at the Forks-of-the-Roads as part of the Juneteenth Program in 1995. Ser Seshs Ab Heter-Clifford M. Boxley is pouring libation. Atef Kaba Khu Ra Kher Nu (Kelvin Thomas) is assisting. Bluff City Post newspaper owner William Terrell stands in background.

The Inter-Faith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage "Retracing the Route of Slavery Around the World" participants at the Forks-of-the-Roads in November of 1998. They had walked from Massachusetts to New Orleans on their world walk retracing the route of slavery. Ser Seshs Ab Heter-Clifford M. Boxley with community support bused them to the Forks-of-the-Roads from Now Orleans because they did not know about the Forks-of-the-Roads connection to America's Internal enslavement trade.

The 1997 Third Annual Forks-of-the-Roads Commemoration and Libation Program participants symbolically retracing a five miles (5) leg of the Over Ground Railroad Enslavement Trafficking Route from Virginia, Down the Natchez Trace to the Forks-of-the-Roads enslavement sale market.