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American gentry

The Washington Family, a 1796 painting of the Washington family, a prominent gentry family, by Edward Savage. An enslaved man stands to the right of the painting.

The American gentry were landowning members of the American upper class during the early modern period. Historians generally use the term "gentry" to refer to the planter class who resided in the Southern Colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War. They derived their income primarily from the ownership of plantations which produced cash crops using the forced labor of Black slaves and white indentured servants. North of the Province of Maryland, there were few large comparable rural estates, except in the Province of New York.[1][2]

  1. ^ See François-Joseph Ruggiu, "Extraction, wealth and industry: The ideas of noblesse and of gentility in the English and French Atlantics (17th–18th centuries)." History of European Ideas 34.4 (2008): 444-455 online[dead link]
  2. ^ Arthur M. Schlesinger, “The Aristocracy in Colonial America.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 74, 1962, pp. 3–21. online

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