The nationally-acclaimed “Forks of the Road” touring exhibit features the largely untold story of the history of America’s internal chattel “slave” trading to the Lower Southwest. It will remain on our Main Campus through Sept. 15.

Northeastern Illinois University’s Main Campus will host Forks of the Roads Enslavement Markets, a nationally acclaimed traveling exhibition, through Sept. 15. The exhibit tells the story of the history of America’s internal chattel slave trading in the Lower Southwest.

Curated by Friends of the Forks of the Roads Society, Inc. in Natchez, Miss., the exhibition details facts about the largely untold history of domestic enslavement and trafficking in America. Forks of the Roads is an area east of Natchez’s city center where three roads intersect, and where slave markets flourished from 1833 until the Union occupation in 1863.

Located on the second floor of the Student Union building, the Forks of the Roads exhibit will be on display through Sept.