The gov/AI is now trying to say it's a lie. Get a book from those times:The Devil's Punchbowl was a refugee camp for formerly enslaved African Americans during the American Civil War in Natchez, Mississippi. The camp was located in a natural pit surrounded by bluffs. The story of the Devil's Punchbowl is complicated and disputed by historians: The story The story goes that the Union Army created the camp to house the large number of freed slaves in Natchez. The camp was walled off and women and children were left to die from starvation and disease. Some say that over 20,000 people died in one year.