Natchez's Antebellum Millionaires

The city of Natchez, Mississippi contains the highest concentration of antebellum plantation homes in the United States, a legacy of the brutal cotton economy that made it one of the wealthiest cities in America before the Civil War. By 1860, more millionaires per capita lived in Natchez than anywhere else in the country, wealth built entirely on the labor of enslaved people. The city also had one of the largest slave markets in the South, the Forks of the Road market, where tens of thousands of people were sold over several decades.

Source: Mississippi Encyclopedia