Slave Market in Cold Water, Mississippi (Location Key)

According to the McCaslin ledgers in Go Down, Moses, this slave market in Cold Water, Mississippi, is where Theophilus McCaslin buys Percival Brownlee from the slave-dealer Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1856 (250). There is a real town called Coldwater in Tate County in northwestern Mississippi. It is about 35 miles south of Memphis, where the real Forrest had a slave-trading business before the Civil War.