Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's...
Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery - an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of civil war.