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

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

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Author/Contributor(s): Bell, Malcolm
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date: 12/09/2004
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.