Builders of a New South: merchants, capital, and the remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914
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1. Verfasser: Anderson, Aaron D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi ©2013
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Old ways and new realities -- Merchant communities -- Crop liens, freedmen, and planters -- A new kind of planter -- Merchant life and social capital -- A dangerous business
Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were able to take advantage of postwar conditions in Natchez to gain mercantile prominence by supplying planters and black sharecroppers in the plantation supply and cotton buying business. They parlayed this initial success into cotton plantation ownership and became important local businessmen
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 279 pages)
ISBN:1621030598
9781621030591
9781617036682
1617036684
9781283922395
1283922398

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