The Sun King's People: The Natchez Revolt of 1729
By Marcus Delacroix
Length4h 19m
About this audiobook
Among the Natchez, a Sun could not marry a Sun. Nobles had to take their husbands and wives from the commoners, the great ordinary body of the nation whom French writers recorded as Stinkards, and because rank passed through the mother, the order of the whole society shifted a little with every generation. Above it all stood the Great Sun, whose title was no figure of speech. To his people he was the Sun.
In the autumn of 1720 a woman the French would one day write down as Fleur de Lis climbs the ramp of the great mound at the Grand Village each clear evening to watch the light go down beyond the Mississippi. Below her lie cane-walled houses, a plaza, and fields of corn, beans and squash in the deep yellow loess of St. Catherine's Creek, soil the French already covet. On the bluffs, they have built Fort Rosalie.
Nine years later, on a November day in 1729, the Natchez rose against the fort and the plantations around it and killed more than two hundred colonists. What followed was France's war of revenge: the answer from New Orleans, the Choctaw warriors who fought as French allies, a long pursuit across the river, refugee bands taken in at the Chickasaw towns, and the capture of the Great Sun and hundreds of his people, who were shipped to Saint-Domingue and sold into slavery.
The fort is long gone. The mounds along St. Catherine's Creek have outlasted it.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Mound at Sunset
2Chapter 2: The Sun and the Cross
3Chapter 3: Fort Rosalie
4Chapter 4: The Hard Frost
5Chapter 5: The Great Sun's War
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6Chapter 6: New Orleans Answers
7Chapter 7: The Choctaw War
8Chapter 8: The Long Pursuit
9Chapter 9: The Chickasaw Gate
10Chapter 10: The Sun Goes Out
11Chapter 11: The Memory of the Mounds
12Chapter 12: The River Keeps Moving
13About the Author
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