Major Butler's Legacy

Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8203-2395-4
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery. Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Malcolm

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Bell Jr. spent eight eight years researching and writing Major Butler's Legacy on retiring as president and chairman of a Savannah bank. He has published articles and books on Savannah and Georgia history, and with his wife Muriel made the photographs for Drums and Shadows, a Georgia Writers' Project publication reissued by the University of Georgia Press in 1986.