John Horry Dent - South Carolina Aristocrat on the Alabama Frontier

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ray Mathis (1937-1981) was a professor in the department of History at Troy State University. He is editor of In the Land of the Living: Wartime Letters by Confederates from the Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia and Pilgrimage to Madison: Correspondence Concerning the Georgia Party's Inspection of the University of Wisconsin, November 22-23, 1904.

Zusammenfassung

Taken from Dent's journals, this book explores the world of this wealthy planter and landholder.. In 1837, when he came, to the newly opened Alabama frontier with his young wife and her 35 slaves, he had the building of an agrarian dynasty in mind, but his ambition was thwarted by the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ray Mathis
• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.11.2003
• EAN: 9780817351168
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5116-8
• Seiten: 267
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 431 g
• Serien: Library of Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics; Library Alabama Classics
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges