The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1501177842 ISBN13: 9781501177842 Release Date: August 2021 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Length: 288 Pages Weight: 0.52 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3" Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek). 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% of the vote. Much as John Berendt did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and t