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. Richard Grant depicts this strange, eccentric town as it breaks free from the Old South's cultural grip.
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