Alexander K. Farrar

Alexander King Farrar (c. 1814–1878) was a state senator, lawyer, plantation owner, and secession convention delegate in Mississippi.[1]

Farrar was a prominent slave owner[2] with a large plantation near Kingston, Mississippi. He owned about 250 slaves.[3] He represented Adams County, Mississippi in the Mississippi Senate from 1852 to 1858. He married Ann Mary Dougharty and, after her death in the 1860s, Lue Philps Lesley.[4] He was involved in investigating the murder of a plantation manager.[2][5]

Farrar was involved in the hanging of dozens of enslaved people during the American Civil War. After the war he was involved in a plan to sell part of his plantation to freedmen.[6]

Louisiana State University has a collection of his papers.[7]

References

1. Smith, Timothy B. (2014). The Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861–1865. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781626743663 – via Google Books.
2. Wayne, Michael (1990). "An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology". The Journal of American History. 77 (3): 838–863. doi:10.2307/2078988. JSTOR 2078988.
3. Behrend, Justin (2011). "Rebellious Talk and Conspiratorial Plots: The Making of a Slave Insurrection in Civil War Natchez". The Journal of Southern History. 77 (1): 17–52. JSTOR 27919386.
4. "Farrar, Alexander K. (Alexander King), 1814–1878. Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org.
5. Scarborough, William Kauffman (2006). Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807131558 – via Google Books.
6. Behrend, Justin (2015). Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South After the Civil War. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820340333 – via Google Books.
7. "Alexander K. Farrar papers, 1804–1931 (bulk 1831–1870)". researchworks.oclc.org.