Considered the upper class of colonial society

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The Gentry were best known as the "Upper class" of the Colonial Society. They were landowners, wealthy merchants, and financiers. The Gentry had owned huge tracts of woodlands and farmslands and usually large amounts of slaves. The Gentry took it as their right and job to control or govern other people who were less wealthy than them.

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