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American gentry
Wealthy landowners in the colonial United States
American gentry
The American gentry were rich landowners in the British Southern Colonies. The Colonial American use of gentry was not common. Historians use it to refer to rich landowners in the South before the American Revolution. Typically, large scale landowners relied on slave labor, while in some instances land may have been rented out farms to white tenant farmers. North of Maryland, there were few large comparable rural estates, except in the Dutch domains in the Hudson Valley of New York.
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