The Natchez nabobs were a cohort of rich white male plantation owners, lawyers, and politicians who lived in and around the Natchez District of the lower Mississippi River valley of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.[1] The term nabob was borrowed into English from one of the languages of India (originally nawab) and broadly describes colonizers who settled in conquered lands and then returned home with great fortunes.[2] According to one historian there were 55 "fabulously wealthy" nabobs of note in the 1850s.[3] The nabobs were closely collected to one another by a web of kinship ties created by both intermarriage and by joint investments in slaves, land, banks, ships, and trains.[4]
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edit- ^ Scarborough, William (July 11, 2017). "Natchez Nabobs". Mississippi Encyclopedia, Center for Study of Southern Culture.
- ^ "nabob, n.", Oxford English Dictionary (3 ed.), Oxford University Press, 2023-03-02, doi:10.1093/oed/5007546010, retrieved 2024-08-25
- ^ Bonner, Robert (2004-03-01). "Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth Century South". Civil War Book Review. 6 (2). doi:10.31390/cwbr.6.2.13. ISSN 1528-6592.
- ^ James, D. Clayton (1993). Antebellum Natchez. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1860-3.
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