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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820308978
ISBN-139780820308975
eBay Product ID (ePID)996334
Product Key Features
Book TitleMajor Butler's Legacy : Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family
Number of Pages702 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / General
Publication Year1987
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorMalcolm Bell Jr.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight41.8 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN86-011353
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal975.803
SynopsisEncompassing American history from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of our own century, Major Butler's Legacy is a history of five generations of a family sundered at its very core by the same institution of slavery that would lead the nation into the horror and destruction of the Civil War., 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--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In "Major Butler's Legacy," Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.