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

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Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. 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 the hit podcast S-Town did for Woodstock, Alabama, so Richard Grant does for Natchez in The Deepest South of All. With humor and insight, he depicts a strange, eccentric town with an unforgettable cast of characters. There’s Buzz Harper, a six-foot-five gay antique dealer famous for swanning around in a mink coat with a uniformed manservant and a very short German bodybuilder. There’s Ginger Hyland, “The Lioness,” who owns 500 antique eyewash cups and decorates 168 Christmas trees with her jewelry collection. And there’s Nellie Jackson, a Cadillac-driving brothel madam who became an FBI informant about the KKK before being burned alive by one of her customers. Interwoven through these stories is the more somber and largely forgotten account of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a West African prince who was enslaved in Natchez and became a cause célèbre in the 1820s, eventually gaining his freedom and returning to Africa. Part history and part travelogue, The Deepest South of All offers a gripping portrait of a complex American place, as it struggles to break free from the past and confront the legacy of slavery.

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A more accurate title for Richard Grant's book should be NATCHEZ ACCORDING TO REGINA CHARBONEAU. She and several other ladies are prominently quoted, and their stories make for colorful prose. The prologue itself is so bazaar that I found it unbelievable, The book felt more like an expose that an accurate description of Natchez. Most of her citizens are depicted either as alcoholics or mentally unstable. He is less than kind when referring to some of the antebellum home owners. He takes Mrs. Charboneau's remarks about the "other garden club" as racist, socially inferior and responsible for sabotaging the Tablauex, because they were against the inclusion of African Americans. His story is one sided, and he prides himself on being objective as an author and jounalist.

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