The Formation of a Planter Elite by Gallay, Alan

The Formation of a Planter Elite (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820330181)

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The Formation of a Planter Elite by Gallay, Alan

The Formation of a Planter Elite

$34.95
The Formation of a Planter Elite by Gallay, Alan

The Formation of a Planter Elite

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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--which 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.

Author: Alan Gallay
ISBN-10: 0820330183
ISBN-13: 9780820330181
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.17w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 69
By Alan Gallay
By Alan Gallay
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Alan Gallay is the Warner Woodring Chair of Atlantic World and Early American History at Ohio State University, where he is also Director of the Center for Historical Research. His books include "Voices of the Old South" (Georgia) and "The Indian Slave Trade," winner of the 2003 Bancroft Prize.

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