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Informationen zum Autor BUDDY SULLIVAN was manager of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is a native of McIntosh County in coastal Georgia. He is the author of twenty books about the history of Georgia and coastal Georgia, including the comprehensive Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater and The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower (Georgia). His recent books include Georgia: A State History and "All Under Bank" Roswell King, Jr. and Plantation Management in Tidewater Georgia . Klappentext Sapelo! a barrier island off the Georgia coast! is one of the state's greatest treasures. Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of the island's history! including Native American inhabitants; Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island after the Civil War; and the transition of Sapelo's multiple African American communities into one. Zusammenfassung With a thematic approach of “people and place,” Sullivan reveals how prevailing environmental conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color photographs.
