The formation of a planter elite : Jonathan Bryan and the southern colonial frontier / by Alan Gallay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallay, Alan, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bryan, Jonathan, 1708-1788.

Bryan, Jonathan.

Plantation owners--Georgia--Biography.

Plantation owners.

Frontier and pioneer life--Georgia.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--Southern States.

Southern States.

Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Georgia.

History.

Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Georgia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Southern States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 281 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2007.

Summary:

Jonathan Bryan (1708-88) rose from the obscurity of the southern frontier to become one of colonial Georgia's richest, most powerful men. Along the way he made such influential friends as George Whitefield and James Oglethorpe. 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. Of equal importance, he explored the geographic areas that lay beyond the reach and understanding of his contemporaries. Through the career of a remarkable individual-a career that spanned the founding of Georgia, the Revolution, and the birth of the new republic-Gallay chronicles the rise of the plantation slavery system in the colonial South.

Contents:

The Southern Frontier

Impassioned disciples: The Great Awakening, George Whitfield, and the reform of slavery

From one frontier to another: the assumption of political power

Land and politics

Politics, 1761-1773

Dreams of empire: Jonathan Bryan and the Creek Indians

The War and after, 1776-1788

Jonathan Bryan's attendance at Council Meetings

Percentage of petitions for land rejected and postponed, 1755-1769

Jonathan Bryan's petitions for land in Georgia

Conveyances of land and other property to and from Jonathan Bryan

Jonathan Bryan's political activity compared with his requests for land

Selected vote tallies illustrating factionalism of the Georgia Commons House of Assembly, 1773

Maps: Port Royal, circa 1715 and 1750

Jonathan Bryan's plantation empire, 1765

Creek land and settlements in the Lower Southeast, 1774.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780820330181

0820330183

OCLC:

122423728