Builders of a New South - Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914

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. This book digs deep in countless records to explore how these traders functioned as entrepreneurs in the aftermath of the Civil War.