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James Monroe Smith, Georgia Planter - Before Death And After - Bok av E. Merton Coulter - Inbunden

Few men in the history of Georgia have come down to the present in hearsay and folklore as profusely and as controversially as has James Monroe Smith. E. Merton Coulter seeks to separate fact from fiction in his account of Smith's varied activities and the final dissolution of his wealth.

SEK 860.00

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

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.

SEK 576.00

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Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Bok av Alan Gallay - Inbunden

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.

SEK 1480.00

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Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Bok av Alan Gallay - Häftad

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.

SEK 516.00

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Dear Master - Letters Of A Slave Family - Bok av Randall Miller - Häftad

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.

SEK 596.00

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James Monroe Smith, Georgia Planter - Before Death And After - Bok av E. Merton Coulter - Inbunden

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

Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Bok av Alan Gallay - Inbunden

Formation of a Planter Elite - Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier - Bok av Alan Gallay - Häftad

Dear Master - Letters Of A Slave Family - Bok av Randall Miller - Häftad

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