{"id":268512,"date":"2017-05-06T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=268512"},"modified":"2020-08-23T13:36:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:36:23","slug":"devils-punchbowl-u-s-concentration-camp-for-african-americans-so-horrific-it-was-erased-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/devils-punchbowl-u-s-concentration-camp-for-african-americans-so-horrific-it-was-erased-from-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil\u2019s Punchbowl \u2014 U.S. concentration camp for African Americans so horrific it was erased from History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>All US Black Americans should remember it forever. Of course, there is no \u201d holocaust memorial\u201d for them\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is a closely guarded secret that has been deliberately buried by mainstream media and historians: After the Civil War (and during the war), millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps in America and killed through\u00a0forced starvation,\u00a0and other means.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these locations were called \u201ccontraband camps\u201d, and they were hastily built\u00a0internment camps that were generally in proximity to Union army camps.<\/p>\n<p>One gruesome camp, in particular, was located in\u00a0Natchez, Ms. The Devil\u2019s Punchbowl is a place located in Natchez, where during the Civil War, authorities forced tens of thousands of freed slaves to live in these American death camps. Researcher Paula Westbrook said, \u201cThe union army did not allow them to remove the bodies from the camp. They just gave \u2019em shovels and said bury \u2019em where they drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the slaves were released from the plantations during the occupation they overran Natchez. And the population went from about 10,000 to 120,000 overnight,\u201d Westbrook said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they decided to build an encampment for \u2019em at Devil\u2019s Punchbowl which they walled off and wouldn\u2019t let \u2019em out,\u201d Don Estes, former director of the Natchez City Cemetery, said.<\/p>\n<p>In Natchez Mississipi alone, officials estimate that in the time span of just one year, over 20,000 free Black people were killed in the concentration camp called The Devil\u2019s Punchbowl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spmgmedia.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/17\/devils-punchbowl-an-american-concentration-camp-so-horrific-it-was-erased-from-history\/\">Devil\u2019s Punchbowl \u2014 An American Concentration Camp So Horrific It was Erased from&nbsp;History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: All US Black Americans should remember it forever. Of course, there is no \u201d holocaust memorial\u201d for them\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":268514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}