{"product_id":"major-butlers-legacy-five-generations-of-a-slaveholding-family-paperback","title":"Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMalcolm Bell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaster 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 \u003ci\u003eMajor Butler's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMALCOLM BELL JR. spent eight eight years researching and writing \u003ci\u003eMajor Butler's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e on retiring as president and chairman of a Savannah bank. He has published articles and books on Savannah and Georgia history, and with his wife Muriel made the photographs for \u003ci\u003eDrums and Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, a Georgia Writers' Project publication reissued by the University of Georgia Press in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 704\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.69 x 9.21 x 5.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779977511200,"sku":"9780820323954","price":69.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/19392c5c08fb954c8d3d2736cf011d11.webp?v=1780520948","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/major-butlers-legacy-five-generations-of-a-slaveholding-family-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}