Bücher von Guion Griffis Johnson

The author has drawn on newly discovered manuscripts and the US Treasury archives to present a complete picture of the Sea Islands during the Federal occupation during the Civil War. The book contains accounts of indigo culture, the St. Helena slave market, the planter aristocracy, the slave community, the black as landowner, and the effects of the Civil War. Originally published in 1930.

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