Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil’s Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was ” a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves” during the Civil War. Some sources allege that ” over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this American concentration camp” and that what transpired there was ” so horrific [the camp] was erased from history .”
An example of such a post ( archived ) on social media was shared to X on Feb. 26, 2025, and read, in part:
The Devil’s Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps…