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Emancipation should have laid waste to the Southern aristocracy. The economy was built on the forced labor of enslaved Africans, and almost half the Confederacy’s wealth was invested in owning humans.

Southern Charm is a real-life look at how modern-day Southern aristocracy lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Get charmed by the social scene seeped in traditions unlike any other culture in America.

Southern slave-owning families’ economic losses following the Civil War were short-lived, according to new research, as the descendants of rich planters quickly found new sources of money to regain ...