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Major Butler's legacy : five generations of a slaveholding family / Malcolm Bell, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Malcolm, 1913-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822.
- Butler, Pierce.
- Butler family.
- Plantation owners--Georgia--Biography.
- Plantation owners.
- Plantation life.
- History.
- Georgia.
- South Carolina.
- Plantation owners--South Carolina--Biography.
- Plantation life--Georgia--History--19th century.
- Plantation life--South Carolina--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 673 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1987]
- Summary:
- Encompassing American history from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of our own century, Major Butler's Legacy is a history of five generations of a family sundered at its very core by the same institution of slavery that would lead the nation into the horror and destruction of the Civil War.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 631-648.
- ISBN:
- 0820308978
- OCLC:
- 13703257
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