02771nam 2200637 a 450 991078609480332120230126210013.01-62103-059-8(CKB)2670000000316550(EBL)1105230(OCoLC)794306442(SSID)ssj0000803493(PQKBManifestationID)11421818(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803493(PQKBWorkID)10810563(PQKB)11662795(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203700(MiAaPQ)EBC1105230(MdBmJHUP)muse25627(MiAaPQ)EBC4977739(Au-PeEL)EBL1105230(CaPaEBR)ebr10642022(Au-PeEL)EBL4977739(CaONFJC)MIL423489(OCoLC)1024242048(EXLCZ)99267000000031655020120524d2013 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrBuilders of a New South[electronic resource] merchants, capital, and the remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914 /Aaron D. AndersonJackson University Press of Mississippic20131 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61703-667-6 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 businessmenMerchantsMississippiNatchezCase studiesNatchez (Miss.)CommerceHistory19th centuryNatchez (Miss.)CommerceHistory20th centuryNatchez (Miss.)Economic conditionsNatchez (Miss.)Social conditionsNatchez (Miss.)HistoryMerchants381/.10976226Anderson Aaron D1548374MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786094803321Builders of a New South3805356UNINA