Wealth Land and Slaveholding in Mississippi: A Planter Family’s Life of Privilege, 1818-1913

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The Perkins’ circle of relatives story is a microcosm of stages within the development of not only Southern colonial The usa, but also the developed United States. With its colonial genesis rooted in indentured servitude, first as servants, then later as masters, the Perkins circle of relatives rose to heights inconceivable to them in a rigidly structured seventeenth and eighteenth century English society. As entrepreneurs and landed Southern colonial planters, they first acquired white servants, then Negro slaves, and ultimately the affluence and privilege which rewarded their energy and determination. Separation from the social constraints of the mother country had thus allowed these later generations of Perkins men in The usa to progress and achieve. In The usa the circle of relatives’s success and wealth, both self-made and inherited, had increased through the decades with every generation laying the foundation on which successive generations flourished in Virginia and later in Tennessee and Mississippi. Tracing this generational story provides not only a historical glimpse into an evolving American world of entrepreneurship, affluence, and privilege, but also into the particular nature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century slaveholding American South. Indeed, the Perkins circle of relatives exemplifies the caste of slaveholding Southern planter-aristocrats (heralded within the South yet steadily maligned within the North) whose limited numbers belied their significant contributions to the development of the agricultural South and to the texture of a maturing The usa. Their successes, limitations, faults, and screw ups became part of the many personal and generational threads woven into the great American experience that they all shared. Illustrations, facsimile reprints of original documents, maps, a bibliography, and a full-name index add to the value of this work.

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