audiobook Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta’s Hinterlands by J. William Harris in History

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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.