Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family

Malcolm Bell

ISBN 10: 0820308978 / ISBN 13: 9780820308975

Published by University of Georgia Press, 1987

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Title: Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a...

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good with slight shelf wear

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

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.