Sold Down the River

In 1805 river pirates were stealing girls on the upper Mississippi River and selling them to New Orleans' brothels at auctions held in lower Natchez, or Natchez-under-the-Hill. Carlos White, a newcomer to Natchez, was outraged by the practice and vowed to put an end to the abductions and the auctions. He tried to end them through an anti-vice newspaper campaign, but when that failed he realized that his only recourse was to remove the leadership of the pirate gang. Over a period of two months all but one river pirate leader met a mysterious end and the last, to save his life, confessed to an abduction and recieved a long prison term.