The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776

by Harold E. Davis

Book Overview

Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black slavery, religion, and education, he examines such elementary questions as: what kinds of buildings Georgians lived in, how they solved their transportation problems, the nature of criminal law...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807812676
• ISBN13: 9780807812679
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.