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Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island : growth of a planter / Mary R. Bullard.
Van Pelt Library F292.C94 S733 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bullard, Mary Ricketson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stafford, Robert, 1790-1877.
- Stafford, Robert.
- Plantation owners--Georgia--Cumberland Island--Biography.
- Plantation owners.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Plantation life.
- Georgia--Cumberland Island.
- Plantation life--Georgia--Cumberland Island--History--19th century.
- Slavery--Georgia--Cumberland Island--History--19th century.
- Cumberland Island (Ga.)--Biography.
- Cumberland Island (Ga.).
- Cumberland Island (Ga.)--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island offers a rare glimpse into the life and times of a nineteenth-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford (1790-1877) became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island. Specializing in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton, he claimed among his assets more than 8,000 acres and 350 slaves. Mary R. Bullard recounts Stafford's life in the context of how events from the Federalist period to the Civil War to Reconstruction affected Sea Island planters. As she discusses Stafford's associations with other planters, his business dealings (which included banking and railroad investments), and the day-to-day operation of his plantation, Bullard also imparts a wealth of information about cotton farming methods, plantation life and material culture, and the geography and natural history of Cumberland Island. Stafford's career was fairly typical for his time and place; his personal life was not. He never married, but fathered six children by Elizabeth Bernardey, a mulatto slave nurse. In her afterword to the Brown Thrasher edition, Bullard presents recently uncovered information about a second extralegal family of Robert Stafford as well as additional information about Elizabeth Bernardey's children and the trust funds Stafford provided for them.
- Notes:
- "Brown Thrasher books."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820317381
- OCLC:
- 32312124
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