Author: Grant, Richard

Price: $11.30

Category:Community & Culture Biographies
Publication Date:2021-08-31T00:00:01Z
Pages:288
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1501177842
ISBN:13:9781501177842
"Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote"--