
The American gentry were wealthy landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial South. Historians generally use the term "gentry" to refer to the moneyed planter class in the American South prior to the American Revolution. Typically, large scale landowners rented out farms to white tenant farmers. North of Maryland, there were few large comparable rural estates, except in the ...
American Aristocracy Is there such a thing? Please do not add profiles to this project, but add profiles to the appropriate related project. From Wikipedia: Aristocracy (class) The aristocracy[1] is historically associated with a "hereditary" or a "ruling" social class. In many states, the aristocracy included the upper class of people (aristocrats) with hereditary rank and titles.[2] ...
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