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Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island - Growth of a Planter - Mary R. Bullard

This text offers a glimpse into the life and times of a 19th-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island and specialised in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton.

DKK 438.95

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The Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Alan Gallay

Jonathan Bryan (1708-88) became one of colonial Georgia's richest, most powerful men. Bryan's contemporaries, in terms of their large holdings of land and slaves, were markedly traditional and conservative. As Alan Gallay shows, Bryan was different. Paternalistic and relatively open minded, Bryan contemplated religious, social, political, and economic ideas that other planters refused to consider.

DKK 1183.95

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The Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Alan Gallay

Through the career of a remarkable individual-which spanned the founding of Georgia, the Revolution, and the birth of the new rlic-Gallay chronicles the rise of the plantation slavery system in the colonial South.

DKK 408.95

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Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia - Harvey H. Jackson

This prominent planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army, is often simply known as the man who mortally wounded Button Gwinnett. This biography fleshes out the man who lived during a crucial period in history.

DKK 348.95

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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 - Kent Anderson Leslie

The story of Amanda America Dickson, the privileged daughter of a white planter and unconsenting slave, became the wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South. The book uses events of her life to explore race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton to the New South era.

DKK 295.95

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Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South - The Failure of Agricultural Reform - William M. Mathew

In 1818, Edmund Ruffin, then a young Virginia planter, began conducting chemical and rotational experiments on his Coggin's Point plantation on the James River. Tracing Ruffin's passionate advocacy of both agricultural reform and slavery, William M. Mathew pinpoints in this book many of the contradictions that underlay the economic and social structures of the antebellum South.

DKK 423.95

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Dear Master - Letters Of A Slave Family - Randall Miller

Offers a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters - including seven discovered since the book's original appearance - reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke.

DKK 438.95

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Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island - Growth of a Planter - Mary R. Bullard

The Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Alan Gallay

The Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Alan Gallay

Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia - Harvey H. Jackson

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 - Kent Anderson Leslie

Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South - The Failure of Agricultural Reform - William M. Mathew

Dear Master - Letters Of A Slave Family - Randall Miller

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