Mississippi History Timeline

Born a slave in 1809, William Johnson eventually became an affluent businessman and slave owner. His diary offers a glimpse of Natchez life before the Civil War.

Poindexter served from 1820 to 1822. He was Mississippi’s first congressman and the principal architect of the 1817 Constitution.

Choctaws traded one third of their remaining lands in Mississippi for land across the Mississippi River. Mississippi’s capital and its county, Jackson and Hinds, were later named after United States negotiators Andrew Jackson and Thomas Hinds.