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.
#4523128 in Books Ingramcontent 2016-10-25Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .90 x 6.00l; .0 #File Name: 081731914X280 pagesFar East Down South Asians in the American South Modern South
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