Butler family
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| Type: | Articles |
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| Creator: | Berry, Stephen William |
| Title: | Butler family |
| Description: | Encyclopedia article about the Butler family of South Carolina and Georgia. The Butlers of South Carolina and Philadelphia owned extensive plantations in the Sea Islands of Georgia, where hundreds of slaves labored to grow the rice and cotton on which the family's wealth was based. The most prominent members of the family were the patriarch, Pierce Butler (1744-1822), who amassed the fortune; his grandson Pierce Mease Butler (1806-67); and the latter's wife, Fanny Kemble (1809-93), author of the influential antislavery book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (1863). |
| Subjects: | Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822 | Butler, Pierce, 1807-1867 | Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 | Leigh, Frances Butler, 1838-1910 | Georgia--History--1775-1865 | Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 | Plantations--Georgia | Plantation owners--Georgia | Slaveowners--Georgia | Slave trade--Georgia | Slavery--Georgia | Sea Islands--History | Islands--Georgia | Rice--Georgia | Cotton--Georgia | Hampton Point Plantation |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) | Georgia Humanities Council | University of Georgia. Press | Merrill-Hall New Media | GALILEO (Georgia statewide project) |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press, 2002-09-03 |
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| Related Materials: | Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. |
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