Major Butler's Legacy

Major Butler's Legacy
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 701
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ISBN-10 : 9780820323954
ISBN-13 : 0820323950
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Book Synopsis Major Butler's Legacy by : Malcolm Bell, Jr.

Download or read book Major Butler's Legacy written by Malcolm Bell, Jr. and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.


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