Life & Labor on Butler's Island: Rice Cultivation in the Altamaha Delta

by Buddy Sullivan

This monograph comprises a review of rice cultivation and land ownership in the Altamaha River delta in coastal Georgia, utilizing as its case study the Butler's Island plantation where, during the antebellum period, over six hundred slaves labored to plant and harvest crops of rice that in some years exceeded one million pounds in production per annum. Much of the book is gleaned from the author's previous writings about coastal Georgia. Chief among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1543966284
• ISBN13: 9781543966282
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Bookbaby
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"