Alexander King Farrar (c. 1814–1878) was a state senator, lawyer, plantation owner, and secession convention delegate in Mississippi.
Farrar was a prominent slave owner with a large plantation near Kingston, Mississippi. He owned about 250 slaves. 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. He was involved in investigating the murder of a plantation manager.
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.
Louisiana State University has a collection of his papers.
References
- Smith, Timothy B. (September 25, 2014). The Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781626743663 – via Google Books.
- ^ 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 – via JSTOR.
- 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 – via JSTOR.
- "Farrar, Alexander K. (Alexander King), 1814-1878. - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org.
- Scarborough, William Kauffman (April 1, 2006). Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807131558 – via Google Books.
- Behrend, Justin (April 18, 2015). Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South After the Civil War. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820340333 – via Google Books.
- "Alexander K. Farrar papers, 1804-1931 (bulk 1831-1870)". researchworks.oclc.org.
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